Example sentences of "[was/were] look [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , they were looking at her rather than me . |
| 2 | Maggie blushed , aware that quite a few men were looking at her now . |
| 3 | She knew that Christie Goldsborough was looking at her strangely and that other people , somewhere in the room — pushing into the doorway to see what was going on — were looking at her too . |
| 4 | I think that , I do n't know , it just seemed as if you were looking at me like |
| 5 | They were looking at him oddly . |
| 6 | With a start , George brought his thoughts back to the present , aware that both his father and the groom were looking at him curiously . |
| 7 | Both women were looking at him expectantly . |
| 8 | When the period is over , critically examine what you have done as if you were looking at someone else 's efforts . |
| 9 | Prices were falling and far-sighted men were looking for something else to cultivate . |
| 10 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
| 11 | Erm ah some people were looking for you earlier . |
| 12 | ‘ I think the Good Lord was looking over me today , ’ said the 28-year-old Liverpudlian after a 5-3 victory over Thailand 's James Wattana . |
| 13 | I became aware that the celebrity was looking at me fixedly ( either trying to remember who I was , in expectation of acknowledgement , or in surprise that I should cut him dead in such a manner ) . |
| 14 | I noticed she was looking at me carefully . |
| 15 | She was looking at me again , waiting for an answer . |
| 16 | One of the social workers had come into the office and was looking at me very strangely . |
| 17 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the ten-year-old was looking at her mutinously . |
| 19 | Now Luke was looking at her speculatively . |
| 20 | He was looking at her speculatively . |
| 21 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 22 | He was looking at her intently , as if he expected she might do something surprising , like flying up the chimney . |
| 23 | He was looking at her narrowly . |
| 24 | He was looking at her affectionately and he had n't taken his hand off her shoulder . |
| 25 | ‘ Go on ! ’ he was looking at her strangely . |
| 26 | She knew that Christie Goldsborough was looking at her strangely and that other people , somewhere in the room — pushing into the doorway to see what was going on — were looking at her too . |
| 27 | Her mother was looking at her again . |
| 28 | She turned to meet his gaze , and her heart was suddenly beating a tattoo in her chest , because he was looking at her again with that dark , broody expression in his eyes . |
| 29 | Mrs Gracie was looking at her shrewdly . |
| 30 | He was looking at her oddly , she thought . |