Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] looking [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 2 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 3 | Bell Aircraft was located in close proximity to the GE facility and while Bell was producing P–39s at an heroic rate , its design engineers were already looking beyond the end of the production contact to new , future fighters . |
| 4 | Whilst we were still looking at the blaze , Marjorie Truckle ( Ernie 's sister ) , who would have been about thirteen years of age , came rushing across the field with a message from their mother — |
| 5 | Spanish and Norwegian skippers were now looking at the possibilities such unusual fish offered . |
| 6 | Because we were specifically looking at the assessment of children who presented to hospital with vomiting and a possible diagnosis of pyloric stenosis we excluded children admitted for other conditions who subsequently developed symptoms in hospital that led to a diagnosis of pyloric stenosis . |
| 7 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 9 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 10 | She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University . |
| 11 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 12 | And she was already looking around the room for the gun or the knife that he would surely have about him somewhere . |
| 13 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 14 | ‘ I was just looking at the scenery . ’ |
| 15 | really , I was just looking in the market . |
| 16 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 17 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 18 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 19 | She was still looking at the tree when , suddenly , the Cat appeared again . |
| 20 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 21 | She was still looking at the ceiling : ‘ Things like that just do n't exist , ’ she said to herself . |
| 22 | She was still looking at the door . |
| 23 | He was still looking at the envelopes as they went into a sitting-room at the end of the passage . |
| 24 | John was still looking at the photograph . |
| 25 | She hoped that Maggie was still looking after the jeweller whose name Sarah had a struggle to remember . |
| 26 | She was still looking in the mirror making sure there were no other tell-tale signs of the evening 's activities when the living-room door was thrown open and her mother , looking very stern , appeared . |
| 27 | Mitch was also looking at the Alhambra and taking a few more shots . |
| 28 | Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better . |
| 29 | And after running out of ideas against Watson he then appeared to run out of strength and motivation and was actually looking at the canvas instead of into his opponents ' eyes in the seventh round when he was flattened by a thumping left jab . |