Example sentences of "[pers pn] looking [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City went into this game knowing that anything less than three points would leave them looking over their shoulders toward the relegation area . |
| 2 | Moira went over to her friends and he saw them looking back at him and sniggering . |
| 3 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 4 | Alina leans on the rail beside Angelica , both of them looking down at Walter as he makes another thrust into the darkness beneath them . |
| 5 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 6 | " You did n't mind me looking in at the window , Stephen ? |
| 7 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 8 | ‘ Well , when you looked into his eyes were you looking up or down ? ’ |
| 9 | Are you looking back on tomorrow then ? |
| 10 | He staggered , and I could see him looking around . |
| 11 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 12 | She remembered hesitating , choosing , picking the biggest and bluest cornflowers , and him looking up from his planting and saying quietly , ‘ If you pick the ones as are n't quite open yet , they 've a chance of lasting longer , maybe . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 14 | Tears filled her eyes as she described seeing him looking down on her . |
| 15 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 16 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
| 17 | Penry reached over her to turn on the lamp , and she opened her eyes to find him looking down into her face , a triumphant , indulgent smile curving his mouth as he slid his arms around her , throwing one long leg over hers in careless intimacy . |
| 18 | When she opened her eyes again Philippa was kneeling in front of her looking up at her . |
| 19 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 20 | The root cause for her worry , for her looking back instead of forward , was her dear brother Sebastian and how , a week ago , as casual as could be , considering his name was on the mortgage agreement the same as hers , she had received a postcard from him . |
| 21 | His only certain memory of his mother was of her looking out of the same kitchen window and calling to him as he played on the grass . |
| 22 | George pushed a door open and stood back , and she walked into the room and stood in the center of it looking around with curiosity . |
| 23 | ‘ My dining room faces north and is difficult to heat , ’ he had said to Ianthe , and now he stood in it looking out of the window at the cold March day , fully conscious of his words . |
| 24 | There was a man sitting in it looking down . |
| 25 | You were not there , I was not there Saint Mark or the person who wrote this Gospel was not there Someone has recorded this for us looking back on it . |