Example sentences of "looking [prep] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place .
2 We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour !
3 ‘ I 've been looking for you all over the house . ’
4 Unlike reference , substitution , and ellipsis , the use of conjunction does not instruct the reader to supply missing information either by looking for it elsewhere in the text or by filling structural slots .
5 They 're looking after you well by the look of it
6 He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them .
7 Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road .
8 Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger .
9 Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk .
10 The way he was looking at it right at the end when he 's looking back at him and he
11 Er be difficult to say because er looking at it purely from the mercenary side of the business ,
12 That said , the whole area of interactive video — if that is indeed where your proposal lies — is so far from being a developed market that we are looking at it only in the most tentative of ways .
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