Example sentences of "on looking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay so if you can learn to concentrate on looking for the patterns and looking for , Oh well what sort of word is this , is it going to end in a K end in c sound so it 'll be C K. |
| 2 | Mr Akashi insists on looking on the bright side : Khmer Rouge artillery was known to be inaccurate and their shells often failed to explode , he said . |
| 3 | Pace that 's right you 've been cheating and looking on looking on the next page |
| 4 | In other words , to give , to the question , ‘ Why , on looking at the horizontal moon , would you believe it to be larger than the meridian moon if you had no reason to think otherwise ? ’ the answer , ‘ Because it appears larger ’ , is , if it means ‘ Because I perceive it as larger ’ to give no answer at all . |
| 5 | On looking at the effectiveness of the various textual features , only small differences emerged between the two groups on a number of them , with the fast and slow readers being similarly affected by the unfamiliarity of the material in the passage and by the appearance of nouns not previously encountered in the text , and showing similar sensitivity to the distinction between narrative stories and non-fictional descriptive passages . |
| 6 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 7 | We will not spend more time here on looking at the problems , but go on to look at some generalisations about suffixes and stress . |
| 8 | And , on looking into the lambency of his hooded eyes , I could detect no whiting-out , no glaucoma or cataract . |
| 9 | She insists on looking after the hens herself . |
| 10 | To be fair to myself , ’ she added with a faint smile , ‘ if you will insist on looking like the original swinging teenager it 's small wonder that the thought of trusting you with a really ill man put the fear of God up me . ’ |