Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] looking at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned back to the typewriter to avoid looking at his face . |
| 2 | No Swindon fan likes looking at the league table just now but the Hammers have lost their last two and let in seven goals |
| 3 | There seemed little point in er a wife and a child sitting looking at their husband/father er with no clothes on . |
| 4 | Her most recent work implies looking at reality through a web of membranes which is in some way suggestive of the substance of the eye itself . |
| 5 | Traffic problems on the ringroad , particularly around Bondgate roundabout , have vexed motorists at peak times and this was one area the council intended looking at quite soon , said Mr Alan Docherty , of Darlington planning department . |
| 6 | Transray convexity involves looking at cost behaviour in the vertical plane along ( say ) the line AB . |
| 7 | The hypnotist 's instruction to keep looking at the drawing pin conflicts with his suggestion that the eyes are growing tired and will soon be closing of themselves . |
| 8 | The black eyes had recovered some spark of life , a question in them , as the old woman lay looking at her . |
| 9 | He went on to tell Sadat that the US ambassador kept looking at his watch at the airport , 'saying that every minute I delayed was not in , my interest nor in the interest of Iran . " |
| 10 | Elements of the new approach include looking at the cost of environmental degradation of an area in terms of : its effect on house prices ; the cost of alternative methods of transport ; the value local people place on maintaining environmental features intact ; and an assessment of the cost of replacement , for example moving a colony of badgers . |
| 11 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 12 | Look at this owl sitting looking at us . |
| 13 | erm but I think the whole thing needs looking at again er and toughening up , made a little bit more convenient and I hope that er , I hope that you can do this , and this that this will not be our last opportunity within this document . |
| 14 | The susceptibility has already been spoken of but the assessment of a patient involves looking at their health on all levels , including physical , mental and emotional . |
| 15 | Standard started looking at the possibilities of EAP back in 1990 when the financial industry was going through a period of great change . |
| 16 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
| 17 | Delia enjoys looking at portraits including dogs by Velasquez and Gainsborough . |
| 18 | Dad stood looking at the flat in disgust . |
| 19 | The priest Tavalouze stood looking at Lucien with a faint smile on his face , but said nothing . |
| 20 | At the local authority level Dorset County Council ( 1980 ) , in a booklet called Looking at Schools , talks of a joint-evaluation , which amounts to an inspection with the school agreeing to the report , but having no control over the process of the inspection . |