Example sentences of "was looking [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think the Good Lord was looking over me today , ’ said the 28-year-old Liverpudlian after a 5-3 victory over Thailand 's James Wattana . |
| 2 | After a long while , he smiled against her mouth , then drew back just enough so he was looking into her eyes . |
| 3 | But at least he recognized this now and was looking into it . |
| 4 | David Fishlock , science editor of the Financial Times , told me that the FT ‘ took it seriously ’ because of being told that Harwell was looking into it . |
| 5 | ‘ I was looking on you as my date tonight . ’ |
| 6 | Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself ! |
| 7 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 8 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 9 | Landing in Nigeria , en route to Sierra Leone , and struck , initially , by the intense heat and strange , over-powering odours , Neneh felt frightened and alienated : ‘ It was like a world I 'd never been in , that was looking at me as being different — but also part of . |
| 10 | I became aware that the celebrity was looking at me fixedly ( either trying to remember who I was , in expectation of acknowledgement , or in surprise that I should cut him dead in such a manner ) . |
| 11 | ‘ He was looking at me with his eyes just flickering with fear . |
| 12 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 13 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 14 | Richard was looking at me . |
| 15 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 16 | But she was looking at me with simple , concerned inquiry . |
| 17 | And I remember walking in the door and he was looking at me , and I thought , ‘ Gosh , what 's the matter ? ’ because he was just staring at me . |
| 18 | One of the social workers had come into the office and was looking at me very strangely . |
| 19 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 20 | I noticed she was looking at me carefully . |
| 21 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 22 | The face was looking at me . |
| 23 | Perhaps I was n't able to say earlier this evening , when your dear sweet face was looking at me . |
| 24 | I soon stopped , since as far as my mother knew there was nothing to laugh at and she was looking at me . |
| 25 | But he did n't shut his eyes that time , he was looking at me and I was embarrassed . |
| 26 | He was looking at me with his head to one side . |
| 27 | He , however , after making a very close inspection of Mala , was looking at me . |
| 28 | Not that anyone was looking at me , post of the others in the off-worlders viewing gallery seemed important , who were occupied with looking competitively at one another . |
| 29 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 30 | He was looking at me , a hard , interrogative stare . |