Example sentences of "[adv] looking [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , right after he and Mr. Mendez left , a mustered-out soldier from Thomas came in looking for passage to Bisbee . |
| 2 | Sure Ji he came in looking for Jim one morning and Jim was n't there , says he 's in bed so listen I said do you wan na go up and waken him like fuck Jim says when Acky woke me I said what you mean he give you a kiss and he woke you up . |
| 3 | George came in looking like death . |
| 4 | Catering establishments of all types are constantly looking at ways of saving energy without reducing performance and there are a number of areas within the kitchen where such savings can be made . |
| 5 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 6 | As in any business , the successful direct marketing service provider is constantly looking for ways to improve the systems employed , and thus improve the volume of high quality response which the marketer can achieve from his/her campaigns . |
| 7 | We are therefore constantly looking for ways both to reduce the amount of waste we produce and to upgrade that which remains . |
| 8 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 9 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 10 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
| 11 | The APB is not only looking for comments on its proposed redefinition of the role and scope of audit . |
| 12 | Similarly departmental was recognised as ‘ deparl-mental ’ , so looking for sequences such as ‘ l- ’ and substituting t would give the correct result ( also y for ‘ vj ’ , a for ‘ c\ ’ , and there may well be others ) . |
| 13 | Designs on the screen are most often knitted from bottom to top , so looking for colours as they appear in the design from bottom to top and left to right is an accurate way of assessing where colours are brought into the work and their order . |
| 14 | Er so looking at inheritance tax , er the house the estate the car , capital etcetera all count towards it . |
| 15 | Okay , so looking at numbers of people off work , |
| 16 | So looking at clauses joined by but is one way of revealing a speaker 's or writer 's underlying , unstated assumptions . |
| 17 | It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting . |
| 18 | I enjoyed this , especially looking through microscopes . |
| 19 | He was obviously looking for directions , but he certain |
| 20 | If all that does n't stop the person , they are obviously looking for trouble of some sort and you must quickly decide whether to lash out first or run for safety . |
| 21 | If you then start talking of building supermarkets whatever , then we 're obviously looking at thefts from supermarkets . |
| 22 | Ianthe remembered as she walked along looking for number 28 that her dressmaker had lived very near here , but somehow , after she had made one or two mourning dresses for her after her mother had died , Ianthe had lost touch with her . |
| 23 | I could see Bonefish and his sons working the lateen-sail of their skiff way beyond the reef , perhaps looking for turtles which they could sell to the men who exported the rich flesh to the Japanese . |
| 24 | There will be much looking at books to hunt for pictures to identify objects on the nature table and to help with model-making . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's better looking on TV … ’ |
| 26 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 27 | Science has got to go on looking for knowledge . |
| 28 | I was interested in the waves of immigration into Britain both pre-historically and later , and I kept on looking for proposals which would represent this both in multi-cultural and archaeological terms . |
| 29 | ‘ If they want to keep on looking for pots of gold , an Eldorado in Liechtenstein , they are welcome . |
| 30 | Mrs Maxwell also denied this , saying : ‘ If they want to keep on looking for pots of gold , an Eldorado in Liechtenstein , they are welcome . |