Example sentences of "was look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all and then I I I was looked after the production machinery for about fifteen years the top here . |
| 2 | Everyone was looking over the balcony . |
| 3 | We were nearly on the beach and I was looking over the side of the ship . |
| 4 | P.C. Clifford , the driver of the car , got her name and address and a statement from her , though it does n't amount to anything more than that she was looking over the bridge and saw the body . |
| 5 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 6 | His head rested on the pillow at an unusual angle , the chin tilted abnormally high , so that , from the foot of the bed , Richard was looking into the dark pits of his nostrils . |
| 7 | He waited till the boy turned away from the edge of the pool again and was looking into the trees behind him . |
| 8 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 9 | Creed was looking into the sky as if scanning for omens . |
| 10 | At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus . |
| 11 | And then she was looking into the compassion-filled face of Craig Grenfell . |
| 12 | The book was never published in America , but I was still called to testify at the committee hearing of the US Senate which was looking into the fate of the missing US prisoners of war . |
| 13 | It also reported that the Regional Council was looking into the possible benefits of introducing a Geographical Information System ( GIS ) as a corporate resource and that road accident statistics was one of the pilot study areas . |
| 14 | ‘ For weeks I was looking into the face of every stranger thinking ‘ you could be the one that killed my Brian ’ , ’ said Joan . |
| 15 | Did you tell your , aye thank God , did you tell your daddy the er the big fella was looking into the bin today ? |
| 16 | Ex-Wigan favourite Iro was looking on the bright side yesterday . |
| 17 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 18 | What she should be doing was looking on the bright side . |
| 19 | and I know la well some time when retirement was looking on the on the horizon I was saying to him you 're not alone but , you know , you 've got ta be looking towards being on your own because of course |
| 20 | ‘ He was looking at the marks of a ladder just under her window . |
| 21 | Over his shoulder she was looking at the derelict house . |
| 22 | The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties . |
| 23 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Biff was looking at the brutal contraption rather more dubiously . |
| 26 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 27 | Oh , dear me ! ’ — she was looking at the casserole dish — ‘ stewed mutton and dumplings . |
| 28 | She was looking at the gentleman , and he was looking at her now and as he inclined his head he said , ‘ Thank you for your service . ’ |
| 29 | My surgeon was looking at the past , not the present . |
| 30 | Dad was looking at the fireplace . |