Example sentences of "be looking at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 3 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 4 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |
| 5 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 6 | Your finger will no longer be aligned with the picture — because you are looking at it from a slightly different direction ; your eyes are not in the same place . |
| 7 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 8 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 9 | All round us was a crowd of misty dream-people — though I 'm in the crowd , too — milling and muttering , and they 're looking at me in my silken gown and murmuring to each other , ‘ Is n't it dreadful — Robina 's dead ! |
| 10 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
| 11 | So it 's not , you 're looking at it as two . |
| 12 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 13 | But we 're looking at it with hindsight , we ca n't just say that because of this this that and the other erm that pragmatism did overrule at this particular point in time . |
| 14 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 15 | But also more importantly we 're looking at it from er an employee health and safety point of view because we feel it 's just as important to have our employees aware that their |
| 16 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 17 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 18 | Everybody will be looking at them as scabs , wherever they go . |
| 19 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 20 | That was a bit far fetched I suppose but erm you wo n't be looking at it for it is believable or not . |
| 21 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 22 | What would I be looking at it with ? |
| 23 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 24 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 25 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 26 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 27 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 28 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |
| 29 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 30 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |