Example sentences of "was looking [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 2 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 3 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 4 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |
| 5 | Rohmer was looking up into the sky as the vortex of smoke and steam was greedily sucked skywards into the black roiling clouds of the storm . |
| 6 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 7 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 8 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 9 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 10 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 11 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 12 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 13 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 14 | When they had gone , Maria glanced at Luke , but to her relief he was looking down at the photos Florian had left behind , his expression inscrutable . |
| 15 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 16 | A middle-aged woman , wearing what looked like a turban , was looking out at the night . |
| 17 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 18 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 19 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 20 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 21 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 22 | He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his . |
| 23 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 24 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 25 | Anne was looking out of the window at the reds and yellows of the trees , and the silvery blue of the river . |
| 26 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 27 | One was turning the pages of an old copy of Hotel & Caterer , the other was looking out of the window . |
| 28 | Her father was looking out of the window , but he turned as she came in . |
| 29 | Thomas Sachs was looking out of the back window . |
| 30 | He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes . |