Example sentences of "[noun] looking [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birdie sometimes questioned the fairness of life , having spent overlong looking after an ailing mother and missing her chances with a very suitable man from Ballylee who married another , who was n't bound to an ailing parent . |
| 2 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |
| 3 | In fact I just stand in the middle of the bedroom looking like a favourite rich uncle on a flying visit from South America , urging her to choose where she 'd like to eat , and not worry about the cost . |
| 4 | This is a valuable addition to any Vietnam library ; but readers looking for a melodramatic ‘ military thriller ’ should look elsewhere . |
| 5 | There is an element of desperation in this ( ageing vampiric lefties looking for a radical fix from the last sexual sub-culture left in town ) . |
| 6 | The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning , two miles away from post number seven , is irrelevant . |
| 7 | Down a little tunnel at the Mesdag museum , up a flight of stairs , and you are standing atop a dune looking at an enormous 360-degree panorama painted in 1881 . |
| 8 | Almost perfectly circular , it contains a virtually circular lake with another almost perfectly circular island in its centre — the whole confection looking like a vast floating doughnut . |
| 9 | They were a sub-order with sharp claws and a prominent second toe looking like a huge sickle . |
| 10 | WC apps : 9 Winners : 1966 Nobody has scored a World Cup goal against England since Maradona left the defence looking like a broken washing line in 1986 . |
| 11 | ‘ I sometimes think you hate everyone , ’ said Betty , who would have liked to go round India on a bicycle in an orange robe looking for an Enlightened One . |
| 12 | But yesterday 's report from the US Purchasing Managers , which put the index of export performance at its highest level since April , is another red rag to dollar bulls looking for a narrower US trade deficit . |
| 13 | I 'm a tall , dark , athletic male lookIng for an attractive and lonely female to give loads of affection to , and to put the sparkle into her beautiful eyes . |
| 14 | Imagine that you 're a complete beginner looking for a versatile sewing machine for dressmaking , soft furnishings and embroidery . |
| 15 | It all but invited every cop-hating drug freak , every aggrieved drugs trafficker from the Bekaa Valley to Los Angeles , every ultra-right , gun-running , Contra-supporting machismo addict , and every thwarted narco-terrorist or Muslim extremist looking for a safe or cheap revenge to ‘ terminate ’ him also . |
| 16 | Early versions of these theories were quickly taken up by clinical researchers looking for a formal way of examining what their patients — like the one above — were telling them and many experimental studies were carried out , guided by the hypothesis that schizophrenic features like overinclusive thinking are due to very weak filtration of the contents of thought , resulting in the psychotic individual finding it difficult to pursue a logically connected train of ideas . |
| 17 | And an awful performance by my boy looking like a Black and White Minstrel ! ’ |
| 18 | Throw it in the river still bearing the noose-mark , or cart it round London and risk capture looking for a new gibbet ! ’ |
| 19 | After spending all last seaon looking for a right back we now sell one ! |
| 20 | Sailing as corporate hospitality took off about a decade ago , with companies looking for a new way of hosting events . |
| 21 | Many bright ideas — and failed ideas looking for a second lease on life — are being put forward as ways of converting weapon-grade plutonium into a form too awkward for the weapon-minded to bother with . |
| 22 | On extended expeditions there were occasions when he would break or lose even his spares , and I would find myself combing deserted beaches and jungle tracks looking for a small circle of glass on which , I was acutely aware , rested the success or failure of an entire project . |
| 23 | Thus a HIGH OR EQUAL comparison condition will be used to search a blocked file looking for a given record . |
| 24 | Rather than rent a building , the company decided to build its own offices and then spent 18 months to two years looking for a suitable area . |
| 25 | He spent almost 10 years looking for a Scottish hotel near a large population centre , but found nowhere suitable . |
| 26 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 27 | One can imagine someone in a room looking at a beautiful painting , drinking in the details and the way in which they combine to constitute the lovely whole , and there being nothing beyond this observer and the object of his contemplation . |
| 28 | I find myself able to place the words , in all their moving directness , right into the laibon 's mouth as he spoke , with Ol Doinyo Lengai away in the distance looking like a steamed pudding , its runnelled slopes lightly coated with cream , poured from above but vitrified before reaching the base . |
| 29 | For those customers looking for a real Italian holiday atmosphere in an Italian family hotel , the Hotel Ritz is an ideal choice . |
| 30 | She wondered how many were selling information , and how many were dupes looking for a good time . |