Example sentences of "looking at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the passages in the Queen 's Speech that refer to matters abroad , I reflect upon remarks made to me when I was a very young person , eager to enter politics , by the father of my right hon. Friend the Member for Brighton , Pavilion ( Mr. Amery ) . |
| 2 | She was looking at the maids carrying plates of singed meat to the young people and a servant who was bringing a tray full of raw steaks and sausages out from the house . |
| 3 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 4 | You were supposed to be looking at the clothes , ’ Paula said artlessly . |
| 5 | This is based on the very obvious observation that , if a record has been identified as being relevant , other records at adjacent class numbers may also be of interest ; thus the search can be developed by looking at the records associated with nearby class numbers . |
| 6 | I was n't really looking at the faces , as such , and I immediately felt drawn to one of the men . |
| 7 | Looking at the might-have-beens of stylistic variation is a way of making the elusive quality of good writing open to inspection . |
| 8 | The faint-object camera has also been looking at the remnants of the supernova which excited astronomers in 1987 . |
| 9 | Two well-dressed women were looking at the greenhouses for sale at a garden centre recently . |
| 10 | Looking at the elements in the rational and political models of resource decision making , a list of six key factors of indications of behaviour emerges for both approaches . |
| 11 | Was looking at the papers come straight in and |
| 12 | ‘ For those children who get caught up in totally anti-social behaviour there is no point in just looking at the friendships . |
| 13 | Now we started the morning by looking at the determinants of demand . |
| 14 | Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth . |
| 15 | The various departmental select committees looking at the estimates and the Public Accounts Committee looking at the accounts of what has been spent , can only scratch the surface . |
| 16 | The intelligent amongst us have already been looking at the questions on page forty seven and realizing that despite the weirdness of the sound of this music there are some quite direct things that can be asked . |
| 17 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 18 | What you looking at the questions ! |
| 19 | We 're looking at the roads er for North Yorkshire this Saturday afternoon . |
| 20 | If you know how to read the ocean , it is like looking at the stars : you can see what is happening not only far away but also long ago . |
| 21 | Night after night they had lain out there in the soft , scented warmth , looking at the stars , or lighting candles stuck in Rufus 's wine bottles , eating and drinking , talking , hoping and happy . |
| 22 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 23 | Confounded by this reply , Oscar looked across at the other man to see that he was n't looking at the stars at all , but was still busying himself with the body . |
| 24 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 25 | I have another eyepiece on the end which is suitable for looking at the stars and planets . |
| 26 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 27 | She sat , leaning forward a little , her arms around her legs , looking at the leaves on the apple tree and the spatter of shadow and brightness on the grass . |
| 28 | So by looking at the mates of the heavier hens , Petrie could discover what confers desirable quality in a cock . |
| 29 | to do it and I think even , looking at the competencies of careers officers you 'd probably be able to pick out broad headings . |
| 30 | That there is some common ground is shown by the welcome that the hon. Gentleman gave to the concept of the Public Accounts Committee looking at the regulators and to our slightly wider suggestion that there should be a Select Committee to deal with the matter . |