Example sentences of "looking [adv] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap .
2 I stand up there in the pulpit every Sunday mornin' looking down at the upturned faces searchin' for yours , but in vain .
3 Jess shivered , looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity .
4 She drew away to the balcony over the lobby , feeling incapable , looking down at the bawling men in dinner jackets far below and the women with stiff hair .
5 ‘ That 's him , ’ said Sergeant Comstock , looking down at the slow rivulets of storm-water trickling down out of clothing and hair to wind their way thankfully through the grass back to the river .
6 Tabitha Jute stood , swaying slightly , at the window of Marco Metz 's penthouse flat , looking down at the determined remnants of the Schiaparelli carnival .
7 While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years .
8 Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations .
9 I 'm looking outside at the lovely trees changing the colour .
10 Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well .
11 Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price .
12 She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in .
13 He was kneeling by a pool , looking up at the towering trees that surrounded him — quiet , intent , somehow unsurprised .
14 She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost .
15 You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools .
16 Looking now at the actual differences in digestion between the different predator species , they can be divided into a number of categories as was done for the molars .
17 I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street .
18 ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior .
19 I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out .
20 It has expanded into Africa , Hong Kong and New Zealand , and it is looking closely at the early moves towards privatisation of British Rail .
21 The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness .
22 Whatever your situation , whether you are planning a change of direction or simply looking forward at the various opportunities open to you , the process of your decision-making is an important element of the choice itself .
23 Looking specifically at the two areas in Hambledon , erm I would point out a Mr appears to make a distinction between the two areas , now I 'm not sure on what basis Mr does that , or whether he has undertaken some detailed landscape assessment , but I can say that Hambledon has commissioned a detailed landscape appraisal for its district wide local plan , which did n't show a distinction erm generally across that area .
24 Harris and his colleagues are looking specifically at the charred remains of cereal grains , identifying the different characteristics of wild and cultivated grains .
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