Example sentences of "[adv] looking [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window . |
| 2 | I would remained erm close to the doorway covering the internal hallway er effectively looking down towards the kitchen and the living room area . |
| 3 | You can tell how lively they are by the fact that they work not in great white north-lit drawing-offices , like the more fashionable and established groups , but in a few cramped rooms on the fourth floor of an Edwardian commercial block , above a tobacconist and an employment agency , mostly looking out on an airwell . |
| 4 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 5 | Here she was , without Simon , sitting peacefully looking out at the view . |
| 6 | ‘ Lake , Brian , Andy , ’ he explained , scarcely looking up from the screen . |
| 7 | The role of a positive mental set , i.e. deliberately looking out for a panic attack as an opportunity to practice self-control techniques , rather than running away from it , supports the school of thought that views a panic attack as largely cognitive — behavioural in nature . |
| 8 | But this raised the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless . |
| 9 | Cardiff pushed past , and now they were all heading down that corridor past the two elevators on their left ; still looking back to the reception doors lest that monstrous shadow should suddenly reappear . |
| 10 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 11 | And she sat there , still looking down at the sand . |
| 12 | He paused a moment , still looking down at the body , the head in the centre of a spreading pool of blood . |
| 13 | Peter Yeo was still looking out of the window , and Claudia glanced at his familiar back , too short and too broad despite the most expensive tailoring , with real anxiety , ‘ You do n't honestly think that , do you , Peter ? |
| 14 | Jackson spoke softly , still looking out of the window , his head turned from the other man . |
| 15 | He looked back to Rohmer , still looking out of the window . |
| 16 | Maisie was still looking out of the window . |
| 17 | George had come to stand beside her , also looking down at the baby . |
| 18 | So this boy is looking at the irises and I 'm doing the VAT on a multiple despatch but I 'm also looking out of the corner of my eye and thinking , ‘ You 're a Monday to Friday . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with . |
| 20 | He let her leave the room before going across to Aggie , who was standing now looking down into the fire , and he patted the back of her shoulder , saying , ‘ You 're doin' the best thing , Aggie , the only thing . |
| 21 | But when I got home , I spent an hour simply looking out of the window of my home at the campus , and speculating on its future . |
| 22 | ‘ My Lady Maude will come to the tournament , ’ he said , then looking up at the friar , tapped the side of his fleshy nose . |
| 23 | Then looking up towards the ceiling , he added , ‘ I wonder what she 'll turn out to be like , that young 'un ? ’ |
| 24 | But Gran accepted it , patting her hand and then looking round at the clock as if to remind herself life had to go on . |
| 25 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 26 | After standing silently looking up at the Brooklyn sky for a few minutes , and reciting a poem , she then jumped back into the car . |
| 27 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 28 | That same mood was on him even now as he stood there looking up at the house . |
| 29 | I was sitting there looking out of the window and suddenly this wonderful record came on . |
| 30 | Changez stood there looking out of the window and scratching his arse , completely ignoring his father-in-law , who had no choice but to carry on with his explanation . |