Example sentences of "looking [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |
| 2 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 3 | I said vs West Ham that Whelan and Deane we too similar , both looking for the same ball — or not feeding off each other . |
| 4 | There is now the danger that the same media circus will be dispatched to Sardinia next summer looking for the same headlines which will produce a similar outcome . |
| 5 | Vivien is not alone in thinking that the European professionals are making a mistake in looking for the same privileges and superstar treatment that is nowadays meted out to their American sisters . |
| 6 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 7 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 8 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 9 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 10 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 11 | WHelan did nt look out of place , but in this match I feel that he and Deane were both looking for the same balls and not really working as a pair . |
| 12 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 14 | Saint-Exupéry said that ‘ loving someone does not mean looking into each other 's eyes , but looking in the same direction together . ’ |
| 15 | In fact love has been defined as not looking at each other , but looking in the same direction . |
| 16 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 17 | He sat at his desk looking over the same papers and repeatedly having the same conversations but unable to take decisions or achieve anything . |
| 18 | ALEXANDER ARROWSMITH continues our in-depth Koi series by looking at the many diseases which may affect Koi . |
| 19 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 20 | To lie hour after hour in the same hot , crumpled bed , looking at the same crack of sky between the curtains . |
| 21 | Looking at the same issue from another angle — percentage of total taxation ( including social security contributions ) derived from taxes on household incomes — the UK was joint second in 1971 and fifth in 1978 out of ten countries . |
| 22 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |
| 23 | An artist , an art historian and a tourist may all be looking at the same painting but their perceptions would be different . |
| 24 | And again that 's looking at the same time in nineteen seventy se seventy seven , seventy eight time , it 's looking back into that er er driveway , and if you can remember the sort of the Victorian or Edwardian er photograph that er I showed you before , of er virtually that er that view . |
| 25 | Whenever you find an A.sessilis or A. reineckii you are looking at the same plant : A. rosaefolia . |
| 26 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 27 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 28 | To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) . |
| 29 | Here we are looking at the same argument using the energy input in absolute terms . |
| 30 | So they 'll be looking at the same information as we are . |