Example sentences of "[was/were] looking [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were looking through a box of embroidery threads when the child started to cry . |
| 2 | Terry had taken off his trousers by now , and two women in the cast were looking through a gap in the curtain as he prepared to propagate his analysis of Pyke . |
| 3 | The children were looking at a picture showing two rows of cats . |
| 4 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 5 | But today , from Loke Hide , we were looking at a single wild red-breasted goose . |
| 6 | The other thing is with the competency f if you w if you were looking at a competency chart with a certain member of staff , and identifying that they were incompetent |
| 7 | We were looking at a plant which was a little like cow parsley but smaller , its leaves more feathery . |
| 8 | We were looking at a very serious contender indeed . |
| 9 | ‘ Their letter relates to an earlier position when we were looking at a phased opening because we had not identified full resources , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I think , was it Colin I was talk , we were looking at a Porsche the other day , and he was drooling over this Porsche , and yet it does n't do anything for me . |
| 11 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 12 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 13 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 14 | The Labour Department said the figures were in line with economists ' forecasts , but many were looking for a modest reduction . |
| 15 | IF JEFFREY Archer were looking for a plot for his next novel , he could do worse than examine the rise and rise of Mr John Major 's first female Cabinet ministers , Mrs Virginia Bottomley and Mrs Gillian Shephard . |
| 16 | In middle age , at a time when those in other industries were looking for a period of consolidation , the farmer could be faced with problems when a son or daughter ‘ came home ’ . |
| 17 | When Félicie Cendrars saw them again Jeanne and Modi were looking for a reliable wet-nurse , since neither she nor her mother ‘ could do anything with little Jeanne . |
| 18 | After all , you were looking for a language — Marcus , what is it ? ’ |
| 19 | Interpol , at the time of writing , were looking for a Norfolk widow regarding their enquiries into the death of her husband . |
| 20 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 21 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 22 | These were not necessarily the shy or reserved ones , who were quite likely to be snapped up by ‘ parents ’ who were looking for a quiet life . |
| 23 | The organisers were looking for a nurse who could show how her work — both before and after the changes brought in with the New Contract — had helped her patients . |
| 24 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 25 | I joined one band because they were playing at the Marquee , and at that gig I was spotted by Girlschool , who were looking for a guitarist . |
| 26 | IF you were looking for a local Pillar of Society , you did not need to seek further than Brian Courtenay . |
| 27 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 28 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 29 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 30 | Muriel , probably because of her years and the fact they were looking for a more mature person , was by a hair 's breadth the front-runner , ahead of two younger girls both with experience of the insurance business . |