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Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1	But if you 're looking down a back entry or something , you ca n't always be there .
2	They were cruel , dark , pupiless eyes , like looking down a bottomless pit .
3	I stood looking down a flight of seven stairs in my Afro wig , custom-built frock and charm bracelet , listening to the band tune up and waiting for my intro .
4	‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’
5	Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope .
6	Looking down the meadow to the cabin , he saw no sign yet of the other four but the Eel was very close .
7	Photo : Suttons Looking down the 15th hole in the early 1970's .
8	Chalk greeted them and supplied them with beer but , as they drank , they found themselves looking down the barrels of a dozen pistols !
9	Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ .
10	One can , looking down the microscope , observe the behaviour of individual cells as the embryo develops .
11	‘ Between the top of Skiddaw and the Lake of Bassenthwaite the numerous narrow openings are happily described by Housman … ‘ on looking down the profound precipice in almost any direction the eye recoils with horror .
12	Looking into the yawning mouth of the trap with the moonlight flickering on the wet slimy seaweed within , was not unlike looking down the throat of some attacking monster .
13	His feet are wide apart , legs straight , and his head is looking down the pitch over the left shoulder .
14	For the last few minutes before Ellen appeared , Ruth stood by the window , looking down the dale .
15	Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman .
16	And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it .
17	Finding herself back in the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken lost no time in looking down the microscope again .
18	Gedanken thought there must be something wrong with her eyesight — the strain of looking down the microscope .
19	He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars .
20	The judge was midway round the circle , looking down the scratch line , a grey-haired man in a torn suit jacket and a homburg .
21	Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake .
22	He rose and went to the window , looking down the slope .
23	‘ You know , ’ Ash was saying , breathing hard and looking down the stair-well as I opened the door .
24	It was like looking down the eye of a hurricane .
25	Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan .
26	Lever sat up , staring outward , then turned , looking down the aisle of the transporter .
27	Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar .
28	He stood at the edge of the slope , looking down the line of his cordon and into the turgid water .
29	Lady Maude was looking down the hall , obviously looking out for her husband .
30	Looking down the tower , she could see , twenty feet below her , the church roof and the back of the necks of the gargoyles roaring noiselessly over the marsh .