Example sentences of "looking at [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In this recording the orchestra is in the foreground most of the time ; and during this time we often hear the singers as though looking at them on stage through inverter opera glasses , where they are distinct but tiny . |
2 | But er I kept looking at them on Friday . |
3 | Everybody will be looking at them as scabs , wherever they go . |
4 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
5 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
6 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
7 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
8 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
9 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
10 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
11 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
12 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
13 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
14 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
15 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
16 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
17 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
18 | He stood looking at them in silence , his leather bag in his hand , tweed suit smelling strongly of pipe tobacco . |
19 | Kirov dipped his hand into his pocket , pulling out the freshly stamped papers and looking at them in amazement . |
20 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
21 | Looking at them in this light it is natural to turn to that Elizabethan model for letter-writing , Angel Day 's The English Secretorie ( 1586 ) . |
22 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
23 | " Well , " she said , looking at them in turn again , lifting her face to gaze directly at Graham , " if I may make so bold , chaps , how about a drink ? |
24 | He said : ‘ It was always my intention to spend a couple of years looking at everyone with international potential , qualify for Sweden and then settle the squad down for the World Cup . |
25 | I 'M ALWAYS LOOKING AT MYSELF THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE 'S EYES |
26 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
27 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
28 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
29 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
30 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |