Example sentences of "as he looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The glinting dark gaze was cool , but quizzical as he looked across the office . |
| 5 | Whitlock asked as he looked over the railing at the water fifty feet below him . |
| 6 | My boss stood very still as he looked over the side of the pen at the little animal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yanto felt a tinge of sadness as he looked at the sign . |
| 9 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |
| 16 | He was trying to joke but he was unable to smile as he looked at the old cow . |
| 17 | Three rows in front of Aldrich , on his left-hand side as he looked at the backs of their heads , sat Howard and Shirley Brown . |
| 18 | Now , as he looked at the old woman , his expression became soft , almost tender . |
| 19 | As he looked towards the Iconostasis , the wall that is filled with important and unique icons , he tried to re-create his grandfather 's torment , his inner pain and despair . |
| 20 | The Franciscan felt the hair on the back of his neck stir as he looked towards the door . |
| 21 | First came old syndic Alphonse Frankenstein , bent of shoulder , grey of hair ; but his gaze , as he looked about the court , was still commanding . |
| 22 | Finn stood there helplessly for a moment , his own breath coming in gasps as he looked into the wild eyes of his superior . |
| 23 | Charlie asked as he looked up the stairs . |
| 24 | Now , as he looked round the kitchen , he suddenly frowned and winced , putting on , but only for a second , what Jack called his surly Eastern European sneer . |
| 25 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 26 | Benjamin ignored them as he looked round the chamber . |
| 27 | A wry smile twisted his mouth as he looked around the room . |
| 28 | As he looked around the garden , he thought about who he would go + see that day . |