Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] looking [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DETECTIVES were yesterday looking for Animal Rights extremists who planted a firebomb under a huntswoman 's car . |
| 2 | In talking about USE and CHOICE in Chapter 1 we were implicitly looking at language from the author 's point of view . |
| 3 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 4 | The Duchess was desperately looking for help . |
| 5 | I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings . |
| 6 | He was always looking for work , ’ one said . |
| 7 | Jimmy was still looking in horror at the wall where Frye had disappeared . |
| 8 | Now I was concerned that nobody although they were looking at the water , they were looking at the borehole , they were looking at the electric , nobody was actually looking at production up there . |