Example sentences of "[was/were] looking [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The omens were looking better . |
| 2 | The Cherry and Whites were on top then and were looking good for an opening win when Damien Cummins dropped a goal to make it 9-3 … |
| 3 | things were looking good some of the players were a little disappointed but if they win next week that 's three points from four which is n't a bad start |
| 4 | In the first division Oxford United were looking good in the first half thanks to a goal from defender Anton Rogan … |
| 5 | Oil stocks were looking battered following a slide in the price of crude . |
| 6 | The Grandtully men were looking thunderstruck . |
| 7 | Aged 21 , his ambitions were looking gloomy , having failed the ‘ O ’ level five times , together with his City and Guilds course in photography . |
| 8 | People standing around them were looking shocked and embarrassed . |
| 9 | Thought they were looking shifty . ’ |
| 10 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 11 | The Jerry observers were looking right down on us . |
| 12 | Borrowers were refusing to confirm their indebtedness , unauthorised drawings had taken place and other loans were looking suspicious . |
| 13 | After investing £15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell-based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . |
| 14 | But the drama did not end there ; just as Harefield were looking comfortable , John Harvey Lynch put the back four under pressure , and Harefield 's erm Gary Downs headed a superb own-goal past his keeper who was off balance , to make it two two in the eighty sixth minute . |
| 15 | THINGS were looking bleak for Toshiki Kaifu . |
| 16 | The two girls were looking hard , till Ant Everard restrained them with a cough . |
| 17 | Things were looking brighter at half-time , thanks to an equaliser from Nick Cusack , who flew through the air with the greatest of ease , to knock home his 6th goal of the season . |
| 18 | Things were looking grim . |
| 19 | By the end of that week things were looking grim around our way . |
| 20 | Paula and Louise were looking lovely too — Paula in a little white top with a boat shaped neck and a bright turquoise circular skirt , Louise in a figure hugging number which left none of her curves to the imagination — but for the first time in her life Sally felt she could compete with them on equal terms . |
| 21 | He was looking thoughtful and puzzled when he met Cowley 's gaze again . |
| 22 | Pooley was looking thoughtful . |
| 23 | Sophie was looking thoughtful . |
| 24 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 25 | If Alina was looking cynical , Angelica could only suppose that it was because she 'd earned the right to be . |
| 26 | Jimmy was looking long and hard at Pearce , who had retained an expression of disdain and scorn throughout . |
| 27 | bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just |
| 28 | They fell comfortably into gossip about various parts of their experience until McLeish noticed she was looking tired . |
| 29 | My mother used to say that if anyone told her she was looking tired , she knew it meant that she was not looking very attractive either . |
| 30 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |