Example sentences of "[adj] looking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some leaning against the spiles ; some seated upon the pier-heads ; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China ; some high aloft in the rigging , as if striving to get a still better seaward peep . |
| 2 | Actually it must be quite interesting looking at the development of language as time goes on . |
| 3 | On the other hand we did want to keep it medieval looking on the inside , so what we did was we installed these Yorkshire sliding casement but on the inside as you can see at the top window , we put panel window . |
| 4 | So are you saying then effectively that looking towards the post two thousand and six scenario , and bearing in mind that that review will not be let , will , is likely to take place at the most within the next five years ? |
| 5 | Yeah and we see a lorry with a bloke he was doing like that looking out the back and we all go Ahhhh ! |
| 6 | Erm looking at the employ sorry looking at the output side er the question looking at trends and output over the last four months shows that in all the four regions manufacturers say that output has increased over the preceding four months . |
| 7 | ‘ Nipples do n't twinkle — you must have fallen asleep looking at the fairy lights on the Christmas tree , ’ she scoffed . |
| 8 | Got squashed in the photo files by Brendon Fitzgerald , broke the photocopier , got lost looking for the canteen , uncovered the truth about IPC tea , became Dele Fadele 's personal typewriter ribbon engineer ( have been ever since ) , discovered House music had not yet reached Waterloo , realised that guitars really are the work of the devil , mended the then extremely sad NME stereo ( ie , plugged it in ) and was quickly appointed technical supervisor to anything mechanical ( plugs , electrical toothbrushes ) , invented dance music , formed Subbuteo league with James Brown and Simon Dudfield which eventually became fixed beyond all belief , tried to blag a Misty In Roots CD and failed . |
| 9 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 10 | ‘ I think lawyers have been too much looking from the law outwards rather than as a client looking at the law from the outside . |
| 11 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |
| 12 | Yet ‘ to ascertain whether or not an institution is a charity , it is , then , no good looking at the Act ’ . |
| 13 | And erm my father and Michael had got to know the maids in in the Plas but Michael had grabbed the the the the good looking of the parlour maid and my father had to make do with the cook . |
| 14 | because no good looking in the dictionary for a lot of these things . |
| 15 | He was sitting still looking at the book with an Art-Is Wonderful air about him ( for my benefit , not because he believes it , of course ) . |
| 16 | and let's hope they 're all looking on the bright side of life for this week 's coca cola cup games … now there was a time when Gloucester rugby would always give us a cheer … but they 're down in the dumps too … |
| 17 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |
| 18 | They are all looking along the track to the north . |
| 19 | ‘ They were all looking round the screen saying they had not seen the bum of anyone famous before , ’ he recalls . |
| 20 | And those looking for the story-book world of graceful minarets , the mysterious Kasbah and the far muezzin 's cry wo n't be disappointed either . |
| 21 | From his windows the Prince had views across the Pont Royal to the rue du Bac as well as those looking towards the Champs Elysées and the Arc de Triomphe . |
| 22 | To those looking to the future , he had shown what could be done . |
| 23 | I get real hungry looking at the photos — I ai n't ate for ages . |
| 24 | The tiny lady in purple looking after the money , 78 years old and no bigger than twopennorth of copper , was Jess Wilson who turned out to have been a British clay pigeon champion many years ago . |
| 25 | They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’ |
| 26 | Her father was busy looking at the Evening News , as he did every evening after tea . |
| 27 | You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’ |
| 28 | I was too busy looking at the picture and the frame |
| 29 | I was so busy looking at the coach . |
| 30 | At the British Army Training Unit Suffield ( BATUS ) , not far from Calgary in western Canada , a detachment of twenty-five men from 6 Armoured Workshop 's Forward Repair Group ( FRG ) is being kept busy looking after the 17/ 2lst Lancers battlegroup engaged in Exercise Gazala , the climax of their live firing exercises . |