Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 2 | For readers looking on in envy but undertaking a sharp intake of breath as they feel as second mortgage coming on , this is far from the case . |
| 3 | Jeopardy was leaning against the wall , his head thrown back , arms folded , looking down at Amber with inscrutable eyes . |
| 4 | SID VICIOUS : Looking down on creation |
| 5 | He began to know how God had felt , looking down on Creation on the seventh day , resting from making the World . |
| 6 | SID VICIOUS : Looking down on creation |
| 7 | She stood by the window for some minutes , looking down into Hand and Ball Court , where an old tramp was feeling his way round the walls and trying not to catch people 's eyes . |
| 8 | Their two children are beside their parents , and all four appear to be looking up into Heaven . |
| 9 | I 'm sorry , ’ she said , looking up into Fen 's face . |
| 10 | ‘ Shall we go to that place again ? ’ he said looking up towards Jubilee Wood . |
| 11 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
| 12 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 13 | ‘ To a terrific Sloane called Sukey , ’ said Perdita , not looking up from Horse and Hound . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you want to go to it ? ’ asked Betty , looking up in surprise . |
| 15 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 16 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 17 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 18 | Well er , summer term er , looking back at year ten erm is work 's experience a , they 're writing that owing to personal statements and end of summer term |
| 19 | How do you feel , the sort of looking back on life , sort of the difference now u when you were young ? |
| 20 | And again looking back through history , Nottingham 's red light district is . |
| 21 | There is always some value in looking back in history , and I offer a quotation that best seems to describe what we are about today . |
| 22 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 23 | Looking back in order to look forward : a selection of last season 's sales |
| 24 | A view of the Flight gallery looking back in time , from the HS.125 in the foreground , to the Westland/Hill Pterodactyl and Supermarine S.6B in the background . |
| 25 | And when you look far into space , you 're also looking back in time and we 're looking back when we look at the very most distant objects . |
| 26 | And so you get an insight into his character , the way he thinks , what he feels now looking back in retrospect and just as important what he felt then . |
| 27 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |
| 28 | An easy way to keep your Woodworkers on the bookshelves , without looking out of place is to make a box for each year . |
| 29 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 30 | Nowadays there is a sad , derelict air ; a sweetie shop , a pub and a cafe at street level and nobody looking out of upstairs windows . |