Example sentences of "they [was/were] looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were looking into each other 's face and laughing as if , Agnes thought , they were alone . |
| 2 | They were looking into each other 's eyes with a tenderness that brought her a cruel , twisting anguish . |
| 3 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 4 | An authority spokeswoman said they were looking into the complaint . |
| 5 | The giants had taken Tara for their own and when Tealtaoich and the others had fled to the Forest Court , Nuadu had gone with them , neither quite one of them nor quite not one of them , but feeling a cautious kinship with them and discovering , with cynical amusement , that they were looking to him to lead them back . |
| 6 | They were looking to each other now anxiously . |
| 7 | They were looking to the old Roman virtues for the explanation of Roman success , but the Romans had acquired power by divesting themselves of their old Roman habits . |
| 8 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |
| 9 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |
| 10 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 11 | Maybe they were looking for traces of cement which would give the game away , but the excellent visitors ' centre explains that building materials such as cement were not available when the giant , Finn McCool , built the causeway . |
| 12 | The strongest signal of Moscow 's fury with the intransigent Romanian regime came when Pravda , the Communist Party daily newspaper , reported favourably on the demonstrators in Timisoara , saying that they were looking for rapid reforms in the country . |
| 13 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 14 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 15 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 16 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 17 | I never learned who they were looking for . |
| 18 | Second , failing to take off would give L Detachment 's detractors at headquarters just the ammunition they were looking for to disband the unit . |
| 19 | Tommy Drennan and Mr O'Donnell came next and they were looking for two to bring up the rear . |
| 20 | If they were looking for more cancer then surely the place to look was at the next vulnerable point ? |
| 21 | To be sure they were not removing the very effect they were looking for , the researchers divided the children into groups on the basis of their lead levels . |
| 22 | They were looking for ‘ a large barn with a house ’ . |
| 23 | They were looking for something ‘ studenty ’ , so , of course , languid blondes in punts with medieval architecture in the background duly emerged from the dozens of rough sketches scribbled by Willie Rushton . |
| 24 | They were looking for an instrument of murder . |
| 25 | When the authentic medical researchers started to get involved , they were looking for dietary answers to serious illnesses prevalent in Western societies but extremely rare in many less sophisticated communities in the developing world . |
| 26 | They were n't looking for you , they were looking for cocaine . |
| 27 | Although they did n't actually mention it , he said , he began to realise they were looking for suggestions that rituals had taken place , that he and his wife were part of it , and that their children were victims . |
| 28 | They even searched between the sheets and under the mattresses , and gave no answer when she asked what they were looking for . |
| 29 | ‘ They were looking for trouble , ’ said prosecutor Nigel Mylne . |
| 30 | April/May they were in , taking rock samples out and at that time we did n't even think they were looking for gold … |