Example sentences of "[subord] he looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 2 | Tallboy was n't sure how to judge his superior 's tone but he needed a fillip to his esteem right now so he looked on the bright side . |
| 3 | If he looked into the device , he may have left something of himself . ’ |
| 4 | Together with Simon , Piggy had always got different solutions for problems because he looked at the world scientifically . |
| 5 | The researcher could be heard in the next room , stalling on the telephone while he looked through the file for the references . |
| 6 | He believed he was as beautiful as ever when he looked into the glass , but perhaps the AIDS scare had stopped them picking up older men in bars . |
| 7 | ‘ Show me , ’ whispered Wynne-Jones , but when he looked through the mask he could see no more than the darkness . |
| 8 | He had been smiling at the screen , an expression which fell with such abruptness from his face when he looked at the doorway that Zambia was convinced SHe heard it hit the floor with a crack . |
| 9 | When he looked at the picture of Tace he might have been looking into a mirror . |
| 10 | A frown of puzzlement creased his brow when he looked at the cover . |
| 11 | Is it not the case that the right hon. Gentleman 's delay in coming to the House to announce his decision is because , when he looked at the facts , he was minded to reject the application but was told by the puppet master sitting next to him that he had to make a political decision ? |
| 12 | WHEN bought Burston windmill he could never have envisaged all the changes which would take place — but he always chuckled when he looked at the map — geographically he had bought the high ground . |
| 13 | Mr I think suggested that er on the basis of the level of commitment , in North Yorkshire , when he looked at the County Council 's forty one thousand , that no new sites will come forward , well quite clearly that 's not going to be the case , there is a substantial residue er which are going to come forward . |
| 14 | When he looked at the tremendous penalty borne by the aircraft in regard to the armour plating carried , the first thing to go was a huge ½″ thick slab that could have graced Fort Knox , but which protected the W/Op and the cabin crew , and that must have weighed several hundred pounds . |
| 15 | When he looked in the tomb he had not really noticed the body was missing . |
| 16 | What was unusual in this case was that even in his great excitement he still carried the photographs of Koko and pointed to them repeatedly as he looked toward the teacher , who nodded and said ‘ Yes ’ to Sherman . |
| 17 | As he looked across the now peaceful Green , he found it was surprisingly easy to imagine it filled with men and women in uniform fighting for a cause they truly believed in . |
| 18 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 19 | The glinting dark gaze was cool , but quizzical as he looked across the office . |
| 20 | Whitlock asked as he looked over the railing at the water fifty feet below him . |
| 21 | My boss stood very still as he looked over the side of the pen at the little animal . |
| 22 | Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind . |
| 23 | Yanto felt a tinge of sadness as he looked at the sign . |
| 24 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |
| 25 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 26 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 27 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 28 | The offices faced out on to the wolf enclosure and as he looked at the pack huddled by the iron fence in the snow he thought how right they looked for once . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're proud of it , are n't you , Aged ? ’ said Wemmick , his face losing all its usual hardness as he looked at the old man . |
| 30 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |