Example sentences of "was looking at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was looking at Slater through the black web of her hair ; now her head tilted , she turned to face him , put her small hand out . |
| 2 | Then he spoke to Mother , but did n't look at her ; when he replied to her question he was looking at O , and O was looking at him . |
| 3 | She was looking at Peggy again . |
| 4 | A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 . |
| 5 | Sara glanced at Dr Kent , but he was looking at Juliet and smiling . |
| 6 | Snodgrass was discussing with the Gnomes the best route to take and Caspar was making sure that they had packed the maps and Inchbad and Goll the Gorm and Arca Dubh were nodding and smiling and , of course , there was nothing sinister in their smiles — and there was certainly nothing in the least sinister in the way that Goibniu was looking at Fenella , thumbs hooked in his belt , his wide greedy mouth curving into a satisfied grin … |
| 7 | Miss Evans was looking at Nick . |
| 8 | But Mr Evans was looking at Nick with a certain , grudging respect . |
| 9 | She was looking at Mrs Gotobed 's dress . |
| 10 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |
| 11 | He was looking at Agnes with exactly the expression he would have chosen had he lived to see a woman in his club . |
| 12 | She was looking at Ronni now in stupefied horror . |
| 13 | Paul Lexington ( now of Scenario Productions ) was looking at Lesley-Jane anxiously and asking if he should arrange an ambulance . |
| 14 | Fox was already there with a pharmacologist from the country hospital who was looking at Alfred 's stock of drugs with a view to discovering a possible source of the poison . |
| 15 | She was looking at Maggie now . |
| 16 | A Creative and Performing Arts Panel , meeting for the first time in February of that year , became a Board , and from the outset was looking at proposals such as that from Middlesex Polytechnic for a BA and BA(Hons) in Performance Arts , an ambitious proposal which was greeted with reservations but encouragement , as was a proposal for such a degree in Creative Arts at Trent Polytechnic . |
| 17 | Aplin nodded , but he was looking at Seb . |
| 18 | As the waiter cleared away the debris of their meal , Luke Hunter was looking at Folly across the table with an expression in his eyes that she found hard to classify . |
| 19 | Then he knew that he was looking at Ralf Isambard , lord of Mormesnil , Erington , Fleace and Parfois . |
| 20 | A few days later Mr Boldwood was looking at Bathsheba 's fields , which were next to his own , when he saw her helping Gabriel Oak with the sheep . |
| 21 | Aggie was looking at Ben , and he looked questioningly at Millie as she said , ‘ A nymph is a kind of fairy , I think . |
| 22 | While he was busy Mr Bennet was looking at Pete 's bed and nodding . |
| 23 | Other issues being considered for inclusion in future versions of Unix System V included object-orientation , where Unix System Labs was looking at Choices from the University of Illinois and ISIS , a product for virtual synchronisation from Cornell University — these technologies are needed for distributed systems . |
| 24 | I was looking at actions |
| 25 | Nelson , who was drinking rather too much , was looking at Charity more amorously by the minute . |
| 26 | She was looking at Lee . |
| 27 | These are the one 's I was looking at look , seven ninety nine , yeah , . |
| 28 | She was looking at Aggie now , and Aggie said , ‘ Well , there will be holidays , dear , there will be holidays ; ’ then turning to the Mother Superior , added firmly , ‘ she 'll have to come on a holiday three times a year , other wise it 's no go . ’ |
| 29 | But the , th when we had the Y D P conference at Scarborough , Valerie was saying that the government was looking at career education . |
| 30 | I was looking at Picasso and Braque , Dali and Surrealism . |