Example sentences of "as [noun prp] look [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As Luce looked around her , enjoying the colourful scene , Michele asked , ‘ Where would you like to go now ? ’ |
2 | In its drive stood a Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicle and as Meredith looked across the laburnum hedge at it , a woman of about her own age came out of the house , slamming the door crossly , got into the vehicle and reversed out into the road , driving off at speed . |
3 | Then as Ronni looked into her face , she nodded wisely . |
4 | AS IBM LOOKS FOR FURTHER ALLIANCES IN PUSH INTO MERCHANT SEMICONDUCTORS |
5 | As Lexandro looked through a quatrefoil window in the observatorium of the corvette , what he saw ahead , moving seemingly slowly across the void-gulf far from any suns , more isolated than loneliness itself , was a great glittering leviathan that seemed carved intricately of ice , with fins and ribbed wings and soaring towers whose pinnacles were linked by flying buttresses . |
6 | And now , as Stephen looked at his watch , the tide of red colour crept to touch that central point where the rune was . |
7 | And Ben raised his eyebrows as Aggie looked at him . |
8 | The computer started to print out the bill as Adam looked at the picture on the front page of the newspaper . |
9 | The interesting thing , just in passing , that particular time of the year was not actually harvest time , and as Jesus looked over the harvest field it was n't the harvest field that was ripened corn , it was actually full of green shoots , and it is the harvest now is ripe , it 's plenteous because he was n't talking about that , he was talking about men and women . |
10 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
11 | The answer he got was in the line that Frank looked uninspired in training ( well as ‘ inspired ’ as Deano looks from time to time in the games i guess Deano most look — very — inspired in training ) . |
12 | But , say what you like about him , he was probably the perfect bridge between us and a being from another world , especially when that being proved to be as mean and nasty as Argol looked to be . |
13 | As BR looked towards the 1970s and into the 1980s , it was realised that if InterCity was to survive the growing threat posed by the airlines and the rapid extension of motorways , train speeds would have to be lifted beyond the prevailing norm of 80mph start-to-stop between main business centres . |
14 | In a second , as Suzanne looked at the seated pair , Franca realised something . |
15 | As Mary looked at the couple , the fire seemed to die in her . |
16 | As Mary looked at the hole , she noticed something almost buried there . |
17 | As Moore looked into those eyes , he realized that he had seen that look before . |
18 | In fact , Milton 's skipper , Paul Storey hacked the ball off his own line in twelve minutes as Bishops looked for an early goal . |
19 | As Bob looked at it , the hand performed a sudden evolution like a conjuring-trick , turning over and producing from nowhere a pack of American cigarettes , with one of the cigarettes extended towards Bob . |
20 | As Kate looked into Ace 's narrowed , unforgiving eyes before the race , she knew that , unfair or not , he held her somehow responsible , and his last words to her bore that out . |
21 | As Ranald looked at him with some concern , the old man waved him off . |
22 | The solitary applauder was the young man in the scarf , but even as George looked at him , another man joined in , then a woman , and gradually the sound built up until several hands were clapping , but not loudly enough to drown the boos and shouts other members of the audience were producing . |
23 | And stood back and folded his arms as Nuadu looked about him . |
24 | As Collins looks at the current Leeds squad , costing around 10 million , he sees real depth . |
25 | As Michael looked at the man sitting opposite , his fat ugly face grinning like a Cheshire cat 's , he felt an impulse to smash his fist into his teeth . |
26 | As Merrill looked at him questioningly , he went on , ‘ Knowing , by then , just how you felt about the circumstances of Elise 's death , you could have done a lot of damage . ’ |
27 | This , as Henry looked at it , the piped organ music swelling through the chapel , seemed to sum up the complete irrelevance of English literature . |