Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 2 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 3 | Location , Sensation , Modalities , Concominants I muttered looking around me , trying to imprint some image of elusive Englishness . |
| 4 | ‘ I beg your pardon for intruding , ’ she said , ‘ but I came looking for someone to serve me with petrol and I heard your voices and then what you said about Brownies . ’ |
| 5 | So anyway , I came looking for you . |
| 6 | ‘ I came looking for Brenda Blond . ’ |
| 7 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 9 | ‘ All the time I spent looking at that portrait , probably , ’ he mused , his lips curved in a smile of satisfaction . |
| 10 | That 's the first place I tried , when I started looking for you . |
| 11 | You do n't get anything on this scale without communication lines , so I started looking for them . ’ |
| 12 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 13 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 14 | I 'd feel guilty if I started looking on myself as a victim . ’ |
| 15 | I started looking in Cage and Aviary magazine after Sue Yen — the lady I 'd bought Barny from — told me about it . |
| 16 | I went looking for it with my cousin Peter . " |
| 17 | I went looking for a quiet place to sit — while gazing with interest at the multi armed , three-breasted Salmo'kkan dancers being sinuous on a mini-stage when I was frozen in mid stride |
| 18 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 19 | B … ’ she began , got herself together from his impudence , and could see no reason not to reveal , ‘ I went looking for somewhere else to live . ’ |
| 20 | I went looking for somewhere cheaper to — ’ |
| 21 | So I went looking for it and could n't find it ! |
| 22 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 23 | ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’ |
| 24 | He gained third place in the 1988 Ilford Photographic Awards Features category for one of those pictures , but jokes that on his arrival in Africa ‘ I kept looking for a cheque presentation because that 's all I was trained to do . ’ |
| 25 | I kept looking at my watch as we drew through twilit streets . |
| 26 | ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be ! |
| 27 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 28 | staying open , I ai n't going , I ca n't handle it I said I just wan na get out , it was really like a sentence I just could n't stand it of course I laughed , me and Elaine went to the meeting same place , same wall and I kept looking at her and we brought you in here to say thanks , and Elaine looked at me and I looked at her and I said well if that 's all he 's got ta say I said I 'm not , I , what did I say to Elaine ? |
| 29 | But er I kept looking at them on Friday . |
| 30 | I kept looking in the mirror but not , you understand , for traffic . |