Example sentences of "was [adv] looking [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 2 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 3 | She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University . |
| 4 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 5 | And she was already looking around the room for the gun or the knife that he would surely have about him somewhere . |
| 6 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 7 | ‘ I was just looking at the scenery . ’ |
| 8 | really , I was just looking in the market . |
| 9 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 10 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 11 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 12 | She was still looking at the tree when , suddenly , the Cat appeared again . |
| 13 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 14 | She was still looking at the ceiling : ‘ Things like that just do n't exist , ’ she said to herself . |
| 15 | She was still looking at the door . |
| 16 | He was still looking at the envelopes as they went into a sitting-room at the end of the passage . |
| 17 | John was still looking at the photograph . |
| 18 | She hoped that Maggie was still looking after the jeweller whose name Sarah had a struggle to remember . |
| 19 | She was still looking in the mirror making sure there were no other tell-tale signs of the evening 's activities when the living-room door was thrown open and her mother , looking very stern , appeared . |
| 20 | Mitch was also looking at the Alhambra and taking a few more shots . |
| 21 | Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better . |
| 22 | And after running out of ideas against Watson he then appeared to run out of strength and motivation and was actually looking at the canvas instead of into his opponents ' eyes in the seventh round when he was flattened by a thumping left jab . |