Example sentences of "looking [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 2 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 4 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 5 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 6 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 7 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 8 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 9 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 10 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 11 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 12 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 13 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 14 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 15 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 16 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 17 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 18 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 19 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 20 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 21 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 22 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 23 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 24 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 25 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 26 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 27 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 28 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 29 | ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe . |