Example sentences of "[was/were] looking [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Delving into her bag , Cara extracted a few cards from her wallet and passed them over to her , and while Fabia , who knew her sister went by her maiden name in her job , was looking at the printed cards that announced ‘ Cara Kingsdale , Verity magazine ’ , Cara was suggesting , ‘ Keep those by you just in case Mr Gajdusek wants proof that you represent Verity . |
| 32 | ‘ In particular , I was looking at the environmental regulations and how [ or even if ] they are enforced . |
| 33 | Then he saw that he was looking at the puzzled , desperate face of Ho Chan . |
| 34 | 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 . ’ |
| 35 | Biff was looking at the brutal contraption rather more dubiously . |
| 36 | The senator was looking at the sun-reflecting sea . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 40 | Over his shoulder she was looking at the derelict house . |
| 41 | yes it 's Chernobyl , he was looking for the real word there , a nuclear what ? |
| 42 | I was looking for the perfect book and I found it . ’ |
| 43 | Hershman says his movie is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard 's Breathless , and that he was looking for the new Jean-Paul Belmondo to play the lead . |
| 44 | In this case , though , is n't it more likely that Joanna was looking for the same 15 minutes of fame achieved by Australian nightclub singer Fairlie Arrow a year ago ? |
| 45 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 46 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 47 | Because that 's detail really , er , I was looking for the main parts . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 52 | Good , fine , I 'm not surprised , I was looking in the wrong rate book was n't I ? |
| 53 | He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter . |