Example sentences of "as [pron] looked at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 2 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 3 | My blood froze as I looked at the prices . |
| 4 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 5 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
| 6 | It was warm inside the building as I looked at the uniforms from Algeria , Morocco and Tonkin . |
| 7 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
| 8 | Paul was trying to catch fish in a pool as I looked at the thing . |
| 9 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 10 | Something clicked as I looked at the number . |
| 11 | As she looked at the vast and busy canvas , Miss Hatherby sensed she was finding it difficult to take in and said , ‘ You know Constance , you can not look at a painting with the same eyes as you stare down Chollerton High Street . |
| 12 | As she looked at the tiny bundle she said drily : ‘ Thank goodness he has n't got ears like his father . ’ |
| 13 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 14 | Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen . |
| 15 | For both occasions she had worn the same hat — an uncompromising chenille turban ; Helen had disposed of it a month ago with the rest of her things and , as she looked at the photographs , felt again the curious dry but slimy touch of it . |
| 16 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 17 | Jessamy allowed her voice to become deliberately sympathetic as she looked at the older woman . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know if it will do any good , ’ she said as she looked at the medicine , ‘ but it might . |
| 19 | All the women exclaimed at the sight of the red , pink and white azaleas massed on the steps , but each thought privately that only she could appreciate the true beauty and significance of the flowers — Sophia feeling that here was the essence of the Italy she knew and loved , Penelope experiencing a lift of the heart as if the flowers held a promise of future romantic adventures , Ianthe knowing as she looked at the flower what she had only suspected before — that she was in love with John . |
| 20 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 21 | As she looked at the soft golden panelling , more of which emerged every day , the pleasure of her victory washed over Sara anew . |
| 22 | ‘ As we looked at the range of products available , we saw that FCRS offered us the most flexible route as the basic packaged solution that could be easily maintained . ’ |
| 23 | cos okay you wo n't believe he got several of those questions wrong as , you know , as we looked at the end of last night 's , you ca n't believe |
| 24 | The marketing team of the DIY company would probably discuss some of the following questions as they looked at the bar charts : |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm afraid stocks are still pathetically low , ’ Louise said as they looked at the half dozen dresses that were the only ones the assistant had in Constance 's size . |
| 26 | Huy asked him , as they looked at the rock . |
| 27 | Rain swilled and foamed in its open mouth as it looked at the churning black clouds and the eruptions of fractured lightning . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Yanto felt a tinge of sadness as he looked at the sign . |
| 30 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |