Example sentences of "[adv] looking [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 2 | If you 've got a question , shout , shout out to start you on and that start up encourages cos it so often happens yeah bop bop bop bop bop and somebody is still basically looking for their rucksack while all the rest are up the , half way up the mountain . |
| 3 | He was gloomily looking at his registration book on Tuesday morning . |
| 4 | You 're only looking at her body ! |
| 5 | I 'm really only looking for my place on the bandwagon . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No , just looking for your mother to say goodbye . ’ |
| 7 | Now have a look at the work now , hands up and see if you could tell me , just looking at your work , is there some way you could of improved it . |
| 8 | David , just looking at your situation , I know you 're er , a young chap and you have a young family , and we 've er , discussing your existing circumstances and I can see that at the moment er , funds in the family budget are a little bit tight . |
| 9 | Leaning up on one arm , not touching her , just looking into her face , he began quietly , ‘ Up until I was thirty , with a few exceptions , I thought I had everything I wanted , needed . |
| 10 | Well grandma sort of had it like , when she was like looking after me granddad and whatever like er it 's a different sort of kind of , it 's the same sort of thing , but you know , something different |
| 11 | You want to be home looking after your business . ’ |
| 12 | He was always looking at his watch and saying he 'd have to go and — ’ |
| 13 | She had never spent so long taking her clothes off , but when she finally stood alluringly naked she saw that he was still looking at her mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ So am I. ’ She was still looking at his hand . |
| 15 | The police are still looking for her killer . |
| 16 | I 'm still looking for me broom . |
| 17 | Paul Lexington rushed around , also looking at his watch and working out how much overtime he was going to have to pay ( or , to Charles 's suspicious mind , how much overtime he was going to avoid paying ) . |
| 18 | But the doctor , who seemed a quiet , kindly man , was also looking at our prisoner with murder in his eyes . |
| 19 | To laughter , he joked : ‘ He is probably looking after his pond . ’ |
| 20 | O'Shaughnessy tried to chip Perks from 25 yards but failed admirably , Mardenborough twice shot wide looking for his hat trick , Gaughan twice broke through on his own but was denied by the keeper , and Ellison hit the post from an acute angle in the last minute . |
| 21 | She ai n't really looking at my face , but straight into my eyes . |
| 22 | So that 'll be stood here looking at my jacket , it wants washing , and Andrew 's does , and our Lianne 's does . |
| 23 | Nicky , however , had no intention of even looking for his brother in New York . |
| 24 | The humans were n't even looking in his direction . |
| 25 | Out own men are still on the critical list , " he added , but Katherine was n't interested in the condition of the two men who had gone to Hyde 's rooms two days ago looking for her son . |
| 26 | They had taken him down in the lift and he had stood there looking at her face , peaceful and still . |
| 27 | He was tired of wrestling with it , brooding about it , sometimes looking at his bride 's back with violent puzzlement ; but now , surrounded by this covert attention , he was glad to let it go : he would take tea like a lord with his family . |
| 28 | Barely looking at his wife , Harold said , ‘ I thought I 'd drive Felicity down to see the College after we 've had a cup of tea . ’ |
| 29 | Thinking these days includes other ways of ‘ treating ’ Cystitis — by prevention , which will involve you actively looking at your lifestyle and seeing what you can do to help yourself ( pages 12–13 ) . |
| 30 | She is currently looking after her mother 's dog , Rabbit , a cross between a Jack Russell and a Tibetan terrier . |