Example sentences of "[adv prt] looking [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly carried on looking over the books but his heart was n't in it . |
| 2 | He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful . |
| 3 | He did n't even ask the next question but went on looking at the Consul General expectantly . |
| 4 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |
| 5 | Those who had initially wanted to go on looking after the dementia sufferer at home ( nine carers ) were also mainly content with the institutional care arrangement . |
| 6 | I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass . |
| 7 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |
| 8 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 9 | For the briefest of instants , I was standing up looking in the mirror at the face of a man at the bar … |
| 10 | Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ? |
| 11 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 12 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 13 | He 's been going round looking like the wrath of God . |