Example sentences of "[was/were] looking at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We evaluated erm the neurological feature detection , the work of grandmother cells and we said that in fact that probably was n't what was happening , we were looking at spatial frequencies instead . |
| 2 | Okay well I know I know you said that you were looking at one or two other things and quite honestly I would expect you to be . |
| 3 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 4 | Erm , when we were looking at all the markers like erm , |
| 5 | We were looking at that last night . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure I approve of the way you were looking at that visitor , ’ he went on , bending towards her and speaking quietly . |
| 7 | He were looking at that bus . |
| 8 | I were looking at that one |
| 9 | Only last autumn big life insurance companies were looking at net losses on their long-term shareholdings . |
| 10 | Consequently , many retailers in the run-up to Christmas were looking at poor weekly sales figures when compared with the same week in 1991 . |
| 11 | Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing . |
| 12 | Dad had turned away , and Mum and Mrs Fry were looking at each other like conspirators . |
| 13 | Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion . |
| 14 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 15 | They were looking at each other . |
| 16 | The men were in the same position , but now they were looking at each other . |
| 17 | And we were looking at each other . |
| 18 | Undoubtedly both Vlaminck and Derain were looking at tribal art in a somewhat unfocused way before 1906 , the year in which Vlaminck purchased his first ‘ discoveries ’ , as were many other young artists . |
| 19 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 20 | The file we were looking at earlier ? |
| 21 | Incidentally there was some goss in a sunday paper that Leeds were looking at another keeper ( from the lower divisions … cant remember who ) . |
| 22 | Tt er if , if , if you go back to some of the things we were looking at last term er er this idea of commercialization tt er argue that the south was a very different type of country to the north , that it is commercialized at least to a much greater extent |
| 23 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 24 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 25 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 26 | Manufacturers were looking at different techniques in an effort to beat off their rivals . |
| 27 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 28 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 29 | Rugby club chairman John Redmayne said the club was looking at alternative sites . |
| 30 | He was looking at outdoor cold stress and we were able to tell him about the extent of the particular housing problem in Scotland and how people could only afford to heat one room . |