Example sentences of "[noun] looking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birdie sometimes questioned the fairness of life , having spent overlong looking after an ailing mother and missing her chances with a very suitable man from Ballylee who married another , who was n't bound to an ailing parent . |
| 2 | A rock journalist looking for a scoop ? |
| 3 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |
| 4 | As a final thought , I think it would be worth Leeds 's while to have a scout looking over the US collegiate system . |
| 5 | The difficulty is well illustrated by the facts of Nicholson v. Gage , in which a Peeping Tom was caught in a public lavatory looking through a hole in the wall into the women 's lavatory . |
| 6 | He was like a man who has made one step forward into unknown territory and stands looking for a path . |
| 7 | Making a sound in his throat , he turned his head away , then said , ‘ Funny thing , but neither am I ; yet I 've had to get used to it ; ’ and on this he went out , leaving Millie looking at the big fat woman and feeling she must make conversation : ‘ It 's a beautiful morning , ’ she said . |
| 8 | She replaced the receiver and joined Stephen , who was sitting on the terrace looking at the sea . |
| 9 | She lay on the roof looking through the artificial skylight . |
| 10 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 11 | From fashion designers looking for a source of chic thrills to Sunday supplements looking to tickle their readers ' fancy , everyone has plundered the S&M scene for imagery . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 13 | Midas , in Sloane Square , sells exclusive designer fashionwear making it an obvious target for jet-set shoplifters looking for the ultimate bargain . |
| 14 | Lord Ennals will be joined by a variety of eminent speakers looking at the role of the law , and of lawyers in finding legal remedies for people in need of community care services . |
| 15 | The unfurnished rent for a bedroom looking through the tree tops to Wilton Place , a long-windowed living room overlooking Hyde Park , and access to my own flat roof , was £2 per week in those halcyon days . |
| 16 | In fact I just stand in the middle of the bedroom looking like a favourite rich uncle on a flying visit from South America , urging her to choose where she 'd like to eat , and not worry about the cost . |
| 17 | Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks . |
| 18 | One study looking at the protection provided by the two drugs against histamine induced bronchoconstriction suggested a more than fourfold difference in potency . |
| 19 | And one study looking at the experiences of black teenage mothers found that although they had begun using contraceptives as much as white girls , some had been persuaded by their boyfriends to stop using them . |
| 20 | Brenton , in a study looking at the feasibility of the voluntary sector replacing the statutory sector to some degree in the provision of personal services , concludes : |
| 21 | The last of these three exercises begins by raising the legs up to waist height , keeping the back straight and the eyes looking to the front . |
| 22 | Sometimes when in the evening I lie down with half closed eyes looking at the sunset , I see the screen of the eyelashes and its wonders . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's the … polyneuritis … ’ he heard himself say , as Donald sneaked towards the medical dictionary , his big handsome head bowed with concern , his grey eyes looking into the distance , in the direction of the local tennis court . |
| 24 | Eleanor Thorne was resting , her eyes looking beyond the window and into the distance . |
| 25 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 26 | This is a valuable addition to any Vietnam library ; but readers looking for a melodramatic ‘ military thriller ’ should look elsewhere . |
| 27 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 28 | There is an element of desperation in this ( ageing vampiric lefties looking for a radical fix from the last sexual sub-culture left in town ) . |
| 29 | Imagine a search aircraft looking for a dinghy in the middle of the ocean . |
| 30 | ‘ Now I get loads and loads of letters from teenagers looking for a career in the sport . |