Example sentences of "[vb past] looking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | And I think she found looking after tiny children a bit too much for her . |
| 3 | Stevie , sensitive man that he was , had also picked up the atmosphere , Chris 's unusual silence and the way they avoided looking at each other . |
| 4 | The group was given the go-ahead and began looking at all options . |
| 5 | ‘ All the time I spent looking at that portrait , probably , ’ he mused , his lips curved in a smile of satisfaction . |
| 6 | He started looking at some of the nearby pillars and columns , his boots scraping on the glass slabs of the floor as he moved . |
| 7 | I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while . |
| 8 | We had noticed the week before that er that we had some Penguin biscuits in and er really sort of we kept looking at these Penguins |
| 9 | We once had a neighbour who had and , I kept looking after that , that , and you know , I must say , I quite enjoyed it having . |
| 10 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 11 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 12 | Mike , however , had travelled north , leaving his pregnant girlfriend with relatives in the safety of a Harare suburb as he went looking for another war . |
| 13 | Nigel liked looking at glossy magazines . |
| 14 | Jasper and she stood looking into each other 's faces , alive and tingling and delighted , knowing that anyone looking at them could guess , simply from the waves of energy that danced from them . |
| 15 | He straightened up , and they stood looking at each other . |
| 16 | We stood looking at each other for a long moment ; then he walked slowly up to me . |
| 17 | I put my small but suddenly very heavy suitcase down for a rest , and we stood looking at each other . |
| 18 | They stood looking at each other uncertainly , then Carrie made her way to the door and he heard her going upstairs , with considerably more skill than he would be able to muster . |
| 19 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 20 | They stood looking at each other , and then he cleared his throat . |
| 21 | They stopped outside Margaret 's house first and stood looking at one another . |
| 22 | He went round the table , stepped off the dais and stood looking at all of us . |
| 23 | Drying off after a shower , I stood looking at two framed movie posters on the bathroom wall . |
| 24 | We sat looking at each other , he still holding my hand . |
| 25 | They sat looking at each other without speaking . |
| 26 | I sat looking at that light for almost two hours , by which time I was desperate . |