Example sentences of "looking a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie was looking a little fragile and they browsed through coffee and a restrained bottle of house red for the first hour . |
| 2 | But no-one gives a second glance to a frail Japanese man , who stands , cupping his hand over a cigarette , looking a little lost amid the general traffic . |
| 3 | Its effects can vary from never looking a man in the eye or never arguing with a man , to wearing a Burkha . |
| 4 | All right , it 's looking a little dated now ; the steering wheel is absurdly large , even by Mercedes ' standards , and someone else makes a smoother , quieter V8 . |
| 5 | She 's encouraged him to cut his hair and lose weight , and still Andrew somehow ca n't help looking a little scruffy . |
| 6 | Things are looking a bit funny — you know , a bit dizzy-making . |
| 7 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 8 | Looking a long way out along one line , it found ‘ walls ’ of galaxies at regular intervals . |
| 9 | Each is eager to present himself as the most qualified man to head off protectionist measures and to restore Japan 's good name , which lately has been looking a little tarnished . |
| 10 | He leaned across her looking a trifle insulting . |
| 11 | Alan Hardy said later : ‘ I remember she came in costume for her audition looking a little on the tarty side . |
| 12 | She 's still looking a little wan . |
| 13 | The shares are still looking a long way ahead . |
| 14 | A big grey five-year-old , Sunset And Vine jumped well in the Lily Tree Novice Hurdle and stormed home well clear looking a horse with a real future — some of it , I hope on the right channel . |
| 15 | David D. is always well briefed , usually good-humoured , though he was looking a little frayed by the small hours of Friday . |
| 16 | For a second it looked as if he might make a stab at it , but then he saw John Wakeham , looking a little crestfallen , coming out in front of him , while behind John Patten , Tony Newton , Michael Portillo and Sir Patrick Mayhew were about to swing through Downing Street gates . |
| 17 | He was looking a prime candidate for another maiden fifty when Abington , his last-wicket partner , like Johnson before him , strolled down the pitch and was well and truly Pottered . |
| 18 | Sir , ’ I add because he 's looking a bit explosive . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're looking a bit tired , ’ Maggie commented to Laura as she gave the porridge another stir . |
| 20 | The furniture is looking a bit shabby , though . |
| 21 | He was ‘ a very very severe Edwardian ’ , looking a bit like the king , with |
| 22 | She was looking a bit like she had the morning of her hysterectomy . |
| 23 | They left my picture of the typical Methodist looking a bit bland . |
| 24 | He gloried in looking a veteran flyer ; the survivor of untold numbers of daring sorties . |
| 25 | ‘ The effect of looking a bit deeper made more difference than anyone thought , ’ summarises Peter Frey , a psychologist at North-Western University who has written the basic text in the field , Chess Skill In Man and Machine ( Springer-Verlag 1977 ) . |
| 26 | Saracens regained the lead , with the home team looking a bit nervous . |
| 27 | The Friar nodded and got to his feet , picked up his sack , put it down again , and finally tied the neck in a tight knot , looking a little shamefaced as he did it . |
| 28 | Just because there is no job immediately on the horizon do not turn up looking a mess . |
| 29 | The future is now also looking a great deal rosier for children with solid tumours . |
| 30 | By now my interlocutors , who are apt to be young and sensitive souls , much perturbed by the effect that German-led interest rates have already had on their standard of living , tend to be looking a bit peaky and green about the gills . |