Example sentences of "i look [adv prt] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I look around our crew room I see professional pilots , not upper class or lower class , Jaguar of Trabant owners , just pilots have achieved their enviable careers through ability , determination , hard work and in most cases some financial hardship . |
| 2 | I look round his room . |
| 3 | I can see something of the sort as I look over my own published attempts to describe and account for the peaceful way of life followed by the Semai , and I think I can also see some of the reasons for it . |
| 4 | Then he 'd come red and you 'd know that a erm a bombing raid was imminent , you see , and er er when I look back you know , but as I say everything has changed so much . |
| 5 | But the discipline was at school w it was when I look back it was marvellous , we we were never really bad lads . |
| 6 | Now I look back I marvel at the devotion of the teaching staff of these Evening Institutes , and also to the men who staffed the District Line from West Brompton to Westminster . |
| 7 | When I look back I realize just what a hard time Mother must have had because she did not enjoy what one might describe as robust health . |
| 8 | ‘ When I look back I wish that had n't happened , because out of that comes the written situation and something develops that has nothing to do with the game at all . ’ |
| 9 | When I look back I could weep — dear little things tottering about on beaches . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's when I look down I do n't like it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He rang me up and said he was feeling lousy and could I look up his chart . |
| 12 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 13 | I looked over his shoulder . |
| 14 | I looked over his shoulder and saw Fra Angelico 's famous ‘ Annunciation ’ ; and at once knew why the colonnade outside had seemed so familiar . |
| 15 | On arrival at the hairpin bend I looked over my shoulder and saw that the kakar had lowered her head , and was once more cropping the grass . |
| 16 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 17 | ‘ This is mind boggling ’ I thought , as I looked over our basecamp : two tents , brought up with the help of four porters . |
| 18 | A few TV companies came and went ; it seemed very dark when their harsh lights had gone , but gradually my eyes got used to the gloom and I knew if I looked round I would see comforting , familiar faces , as people took their seats in the rows of chairs in front of the altar . |
| 19 | Nobody came in , but as I looked round I saw my mother staring past me , her mouth open . |
| 20 | ‘ When I looked round you 'd gone . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Ana screamed and when I looked round you were n't there at all . ’ |
| 22 | When I looked round he was standing there with his mouth open , trying to say something . |
| 23 | While tea was being prepared , I looked around their bothy home . |
| 24 | When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village . |
| 25 | I looked up her address on our hospital street map in the reception room — Rockingham Gardens , just behind the Elephant and Castle ; and it was a hell of a drive across London , on streets glistening after a day when heavy rain had hardly stopped . |
| 26 | ‘ When I first met Abi , I looked up her father in the Theatre Who 's Who and his entry ran to four pages , ’ says Andrew . |
| 27 | ‘ When I looked up I was covered in blood . |
| 28 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 29 | I pushed them away with a shudder , but when I looked up I saw , lying on a shelf opposite , an infant or Cupid carved in black marble . |
| 30 | But when I looked up I saw I was underneath a car . |