Example sentences of "was look [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , for a long while the possession of a domestic clock or a watch tended to be restricted to the wealthy and was looked upon more as a sign of affluence than as a social necessity . |
| 2 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 3 | Yeah , I was looking at that myself yesterday actually and er if I include three , three Trident staff , erm there are thirty five individuals |
| 4 | from you and , and I was looking at that and ticking boxes and I was , I was almost not listening to what you were saying at times . |
| 5 | Ey I was looking at that one . |
| 6 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 7 | Yes , I , I was looking at that one just now . |
| 8 | For a moment he thought that he was looking at another river — black , smooth and straight between its banks . |
| 9 | I was looking at some last night and they had erm privately owned cottages or |
| 10 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 11 | No wonder I like things I was looking at these tights , yeah , it 's just one pair , and they were about eight pounds |
| 12 | Er I was looking at these and er you get , you know , with the er a set of free |
| 13 | I was looking at this , and not at where I was putting my feet . |
| 14 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 15 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 16 | ‘ I was looking at this . ’ |
| 17 | Well what I was looking at this afternoon was your radiator comes through the floor . |
| 18 | I was looking at this one with the |
| 19 | I was looking at this . |
| 20 | It was no accident , and I knew I was looking at several hundred pounds ' worth of damage . |
| 21 | Though it was too early to say how BP would respond to the opportunities created by the Budget , he said it was looking at several projects for extra investment in North Sea fields already in production . |
| 22 | ‘ If there was , it escaped notice , ’ said Owen , ‘ and no one was looking for such signs , well it might pass them by . |
| 23 | know when I was looking for that |
| 24 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |
| 25 | Athenix was looking for another $8m at least and reportedly could n't get more than $4.5m pledged . |
| 26 | He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job . |
| 27 | I was looking for these and you got drunk and eat them ! |
| 28 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 29 | I was looking for this blooming half thing sticking out ! |
| 30 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |