Example sentences of "looking [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that my friend was not looking for me at all . |
| 2 | " We 've been out looking for her since five , " said another man . |
| 3 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 4 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 5 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 6 | ’ Famlio is looking for us in other sectors . |
| 7 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 8 | Not looking for you at all . |
| 9 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 10 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 11 | ‘ There must be many ways of making this place snugger , ’ argued Charles , looking about him with fresh eyes . |
| 12 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 13 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 14 | Then I 'd be looking after you for both products and what I want to do is have a look at all the standard bearings you take to see if there is potential for a supply . |
| 15 | People looking to it for educational use , or a big company HQ . |
| 16 | And what the force will say to us is that the force has overall priorities and they take precedent and that is to get sixty four P Cs back on the street , and our problems they will be looking to us for imaginative solutions |
| 17 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 18 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 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 | Looking at them in this light it is natural to turn to that Elizabethan model for letter-writing , Angel Day 's The English Secretorie ( 1586 ) . |
| 21 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 22 | Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes . |
| 23 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 24 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 25 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 26 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 27 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 28 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 29 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 30 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |