Example sentences of "looking [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman was staring at them , and Tabitha did n't know who was looking through her eyes . |
| 2 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's okay , ’ McIntosh said , looking through her binoculars . |
| 4 | It was depressing looking through her clothes , and remembering the good times she had spent wearing some of these dresses and blouses . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember , ’ she said softly , looking through her lashes at his strong face . |
| 6 | She was looking looking looking looking through her tights |
| 7 | Last night , a police spokesman said : ‘ We received reports of a man on the roof aiming a rifle and looking through its sights . |
| 8 | A correction of this distorted male-oriented perspective involves going back to women themselves and looking through their eyes at the occupation of housewife . |
| 9 | It was thought that the Shropshire Country Council were the owners , but upon them looking through their records , it appears that Major Minton-Beddoes is indeed the owner , but work has once again started . |
| 10 | Look at them all looking through their books for goodness sake . |
| 11 | Moore prices undoubtedly suffered from over-heating and have fallen back but looking through our records there is still a consistency again the best works getting the best prices . |
| 12 | Looking through our own experience in other parts of Britain and having read some of the submissions of erm others on this subject , we reached the conclusion that the most helpful thing to do might be to have a policy which was criteria based . |
| 13 | In looking through my cases for examples of problems that I 've experienced with 50 millesimals I am conscious that aggravations are not one ! |
| 14 | It is like looking through your camera . |
| 15 | I 'm just trying , looking through your submission to see whether in fact you have produced a table which showed the possible land provision based on thirty four workers to the hectare . |
| 16 | Laplace was looking through his telescope , and Napoleon asked him if he could recognise the Deity through it . |
| 17 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 18 | So the cameraman , looking through his viewfinder , could see the caption slide through the glass plate , plus sufficient reflection of the action going on over at the black drape set . |
| 19 | Lorne sees best when looking through his camera viewfinder — the contents of which become his whole world . |
| 20 | But when Morris stopped typing , just before lunchtime , and sat back in his chair looking through his handiwork , the silence disturbed Dyson even more . |
| 21 | She was looking for her cigarettes . |
| 22 | She was looking for her genius … |
| 23 | At 7.00 a.m. on 28 September armed police entered Mrs Cherry Groce 's house in Normandy Road , Brixton , looking for her son . |
| 24 | ‘ So we 'll no more go a-Land-Roving so late into the night , ’ sang Daisy five minutes later , as , dizzy with pride and vodka , she weaved back to Drew 's boot looking for her bag and went slap into Drew . |
| 25 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 26 | I 'VE DONE IT , MUM JUBILANT Sally celebrates her sensational gold medal win in the Montjuic stadium — and then goes looking for her mum and dad in the crowd for a victory hug . |
| 27 | She had a lot of time for religion , prophecy , looking for her star . |
| 28 | The small girl was crying , looking for her lost kittens . |
| 29 | Out own men are still on the critical list , " he added , but Katherine was n't interested in the condition of the two men who had gone to Hyde 's rooms two days ago looking for her son . |
| 30 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |