Example sentences of "[was/were] looking at [art] " in BNC.

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1 The children were looking at a picture showing two rows of cats .
2 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 .
3 But today , from Loke Hide , we were looking at a single wild red-breasted goose .
4 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
5 We were looking at a plant which was a little like cow parsley but smaller , its leaves more feathery .
6 We were looking at a very serious contender indeed .
7 ‘ Their letter relates to an earlier position when we were looking at a phased opening because we had not identified full resources , ’ he said .
8 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 .
9 On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt .
10 Two well-dressed women were looking at the greenhouses for sale at a garden centre recently .
11 We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard .
12 Seb and Antony were looking at the horses dubiously , trying to see past glories and failing .
13 Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate .
14 ‘ You say you only began to feel funny while you were looking at the eye ? ’
15 ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official .
16 I remember going upstairs while they were looking at the corpse and writing a note with trembling fingers .
17 Previously we were looking at the way in which the colour order for pattern is decided by the Creation 6 program and took a pattern all the way through to the ‘ Knit a pattern ’ menu , ready to transfer directly across to the machine console .
18 And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react .
19 You already understood the derivation in class , for you were looking at the blackboard and did not obscure your attention by scribbling down everything .
20 Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no
21 Near the door there was a rose-tree and three gardeners , who were looking at the roses in a very worried way .
22 You were looking at the beetle world in such a way as to be able to see the third dimension .
23 As they were looking at the seed packets together , the robin hopped on to a branch near them .
24 Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats .
25 Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments .
26 There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed .
27 The right hon. Gentleman said that the previous set of talks had concluded , and that we were looking at the new basis for talks .
28 It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level .
29 The sudden , brief Egyptian twilight had come upon them while they were looking at the boat .
30 But there is n't any reason why I suppose if you were looking at the the local authority grant it could n't go into that for advertising .
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