Example sentences of "he [was/were] looking [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 yes it 's Chernobyl , he was looking for the real word there , a nuclear what ?
2 Hershman says his movie is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard 's Breathless , and that he was looking for the new Jean-Paul Belmondo to play the lead .
3 He was looking at the two Apaches .
4 Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried .
5 Then he saw that he was looking at the puzzled , desperate face of Ho Chan .
6 Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice .
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