Example sentences of "looking [adv] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This magazine , the readers of the Guardian will have been appalled to discover , is plagued by ‘ young men from Coopers & Lybrand in striped shirts looking suspiciously at cartoons for excess intelligence . ’ |
| 2 | They are looking only at aggregates and pig iron and other goods which can be trundled around the railways for many weeks and do not need to reach their destination at any particular time . |
| 3 | This is one of those serious affairs , looking not at affairs but at ambitions and job satisfaction . |
| 4 | This differs from the previous exercise in that you are not looking directly at skills , but at the theoretical knowledge you require to undertake those skills safely . |
| 5 | Looking quickly at paintings such as Pounding Foam or A Winter Sea , you might think they were expressionist works by Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning . |
| 6 | Actually , it could have been ‘ See , you ! ’ — and I 've even told people since that it was ‘ See you , Jimmy ’ — but then and there , lying flat on my back looking up at Shifty-Eyes and still holding his foot , all I really registered was that the ‘ you ’ came out as just ‘ U ’ . |
| 7 | She dozed , open-eyed , looking up at slits of light . |
| 8 | I wonder if in ten years ' time Mr. Duggan will be looking back at videos of ‘ England 's glory years ’ and then be writing to RW&P to remind us of the lock forward who elbowed his opposite number from behind , perforating his eardrum , or the flankers who really do n't seem to mind where their feet or hands come into contact with their opponents . |
| 9 | Most shoplifters give themselves away by constantly looking around at cameras and cashiers or staying in the same area for a long time . |
| 10 | Just looking around at acres of tired , naked flesh made Jezrael squirm ; she stayed in her room as much as possible . |
| 11 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
| 12 | Young men walked through the train , looking under seats , looking hard at faces . |
| 13 | Sequent , too , he suggests , is looking closely at problems with bus bandwidth and distributed computing . |
| 14 | Looking specifically at compounds , it is worth reading Fudge ( 1984 ) , chapter 5 . |