Example sentences of "[was/were] look at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We evaluated erm the neurological feature detection , the work of grandmother cells and we said that in fact that probably was n't what was happening , we were looking at spatial frequencies instead . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure I approve of the way you were looking at that visitor , ’ he went on , bending towards her and speaking quietly . |
| 3 | He were looking at that bus . |
| 4 | Only last autumn big life insurance companies were looking at net losses on their long-term shareholdings . |
| 5 | Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing . |
| 6 | Dad had turned away , and Mum and Mrs Fry were looking at each other like conspirators . |
| 7 | Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion . |
| 8 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 9 | They were looking at each other . |
| 10 | The men were in the same position , but now they were looking at each other . |
| 11 | And we were looking at each other . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly both Vlaminck and Derain were looking at tribal art in a somewhat unfocused way before 1906 , the year in which Vlaminck purchased his first ‘ discoveries ’ , as were many other young artists . |
| 13 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 14 | Incidentally there was some goss in a sunday paper that Leeds were looking at another keeper ( from the lower divisions … cant remember who ) . |
| 15 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 16 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 17 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 18 | Manufacturers were looking at different techniques in an effort to beat off their rivals . |
| 19 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 20 | Rugby club chairman John Redmayne said the club was looking at alternative sites . |
| 21 | He said the Government was looking at other types of custodial sentence for young people . |
| 22 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher told M P's that the Government was looking at possible adjustments in the community charge . |
| 24 | The party was looking at full employment and a committee reported on the question in January 1944 . |
| 25 | My other half ordered from a catalogue disc drives to assemble compu , er a home computer and he was looking very carefully cos computer parts can be quite expensive and he was looking at national catalogue for the best prices . |
| 26 | For a moment he thought that he was looking at another river — black , smooth and straight between its banks . |
| 27 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 28 | I was looking at back pages of the tabloids this lunchtime and noticed that Steve Coppell is the favourite now . |
| 29 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 30 | No wonder I like things I was looking at these tights , yeah , it 's just one pair , and they were about eight pounds |