Example sentences of "[was/were] look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 2 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 3 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 4 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 5 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 6 | In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
| 7 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 8 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 9 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |
| 10 | Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face . |
| 11 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 12 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 13 | The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window . |
| 14 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 15 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |