Example sentences of "looking [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 2 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 3 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 4 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 5 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 6 | Tallis said , amazed , looking about her at the dark , snow-striped land . |
| 7 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 8 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 9 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ he demanded , looking past her at the paladin , who was brandishing his sword . |
| 11 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |
| 12 | " Er — Hazel , " said Hawkbit , looking past him into the face of the dreary , black cliff . |
| 13 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 14 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 15 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 16 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 17 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 18 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 20 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 21 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 22 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 23 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 25 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 26 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 27 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 28 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 29 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
| 30 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |