Example sentences of "[be] looking [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 2 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 3 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 5 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 6 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 7 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 8 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 9 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 10 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 11 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 12 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 13 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 14 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 15 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 16 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 17 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 18 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 19 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 20 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 21 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 22 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 23 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 24 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 25 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 26 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |