Example sentences of "looking [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 2 | Midnight was looking thoughtfully after the receding figure . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no dance house in London which is big enough for what we want to do , ’ she said , looking admiringly at the spacious stage area being laid out to the rear of the former Empire Theatre . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ This is all coming out of capital , ’ she said , looking gloomily round the gloomy room . |
| 6 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 7 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |
| 8 | Lingula -like species , looking much like the living form , can be found in rocks as old as Ordovician . |
| 9 | The woman nodded before looking away into the dying embers of the fire . |
| 10 | She gripped the wheel , looking alternately into the rear-view mirror and ahead , searching for a turn-off where she might be able to lose the chasing Audi . |
| 11 | ‘ Now then , ’ said Deuce , looking critically around the large sitting room which seemed to Harry to be the sort of place the Queen of England would live in , ‘ this wo n't do at all . ’ |
| 12 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 13 | I 'm looking outside at the lovely trees changing the colour . |
| 14 | The latter was generally believed in the eighteenth century to be a Galloway variety or cross , looking exactly like the Scottish breed except in colour . |
| 15 | He lay in bed , looking calmly at the white ceiling . |
| 16 | ‘ Quite a man , this prior , ’ said Lucie , looking penetratingly into the young monk 's face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But auditors will be looking carefully at the precise wording of the legislation and of the related guidance . |
| 20 | ‘ Was it terrible ? ’ he asked , looking questioningly at the empty chair , as if asking their permission to sit down . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ That will put your mother to a great deal of expense , ’ said Lessing , looking severely at the young man over his spectacles . |
| 23 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , well , I do n't know why anybody should have planted trees just here , ’ said Chris Growcott , looking disparagingly at the weedy wood nearby . |
| 25 | She nodded then turned away , looking across at the ancient pomegranate trees , flicking her fan open as she did so . |
| 26 | Meg sat facing him , looking across at the eastern shore . |
| 27 | Looking across to the open plateau of the Cairngorm massif . |
| 28 | I could see the neighbours looking curiously at the big box he had with him . |
| 29 | I awoke to see a German N.C.O. with a ginger moustache looking curiously round the open door of my cell . |
| 30 | It has expanded into Africa , Hong Kong and New Zealand , and it is looking closely at the early moves towards privatisation of British Rail . |