Example sentences of "be look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
2 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
3 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
4 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
5 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |
6 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
7 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
8 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
9 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
10 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
11 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
12 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
13 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
14 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
15 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
16 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
17 | Now that circumstances have conspired to make an immediate share issue an unattractive option , Dell Computer Corp is looking around for the best alternative to raise cash to finance its soaraway growth . |
18 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
19 | In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
20 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
21 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
22 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |
23 | Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face . |
24 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
25 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
26 | The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window . |
27 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
28 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |