Example sentences of "[was/were] looking [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time of the season all the players , even the stars , were looking into the assistant secretary 's office almost every day , asking if there was any news of their contracts . |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the previous set of talks had concluded , and that we were looking at the new basis for talks . |
| 3 | Erm presumably we are talking here next year , talking about sort of years effects , and I just wondered what would be the effects that in general terms if we were looking at the full year effects ? |
| 4 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 5 | Moreover he knew that Harwell were looking for the crucial neutron spectrum which , surely , would clinch everything . |
| 6 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 7 | on to floor and it runs , it just , it ran down into corner , there 's a a wheel , thing , and the cheek well it 's a a pulley wheel , and it , it were looking round the big handle at pulley wheel at me . |
| 8 | And then she was looking into the compassion-filled face of Craig Grenfell . |
| 9 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 10 | Ex-Wigan favourite Iro was looking on the bright side yesterday . |
| 11 | What she should be doing was looking on the bright side . |
| 12 | The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties . |
| 13 | ‘ Passed up a couple of total certs to come to your bloody bun-fight , ’ she complained , though she was looking at the poor child all the time , with her eyes half-closed and tossing her head so the sockets would catch the light . |
| 14 | Now I was looking at the other fella a strong comparison , I was mixing him up with I |
| 15 | The statement was unnecessary , since I was looking at the forward preceptor screens , which showed a silvery shimmer like visible white noise . |
| 16 | A graphics display screen could be used to switch rapidly from one map to another ; this would have the advantage of economy ( in that costly high-quality paper maps would not be needed by each participant ) and would be one way of ensuring that everyone was looking at the right map at any particular time . |
| 17 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 18 | Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried . |
| 19 | Maggie was looking at the corporal standing at the other side of the counter as she said , ‘ Sorry , no sandwiches left ; only wads , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 20 | Biff was looking at the brutal contraption rather more dubiously . |
| 21 | The senator was looking at the sun-reflecting sea . |
| 22 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 23 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 24 | Over his shoulder she was looking at the derelict house . |
| 25 | yes it 's Chernobyl , he was looking for the real word there , a nuclear what ? |
| 26 | I was looking for the perfect book and I found it . ’ |
| 27 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 28 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 29 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 30 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |