Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] looking [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Clive searched his pockets , as if looking for a train ticket . |
| 2 | Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place . |
| 3 | as if looking for a quarrel he went on to exaggerate the uncompromising nature of his position . |
| 4 | She examined her hands , white with chalk , as if looking for the source of some small pain , then gave up on that and began to dust herself down . |
| 5 | Mounce held the note up to the light , as if looking for a watermark . |
| 6 | He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit . |
| 7 | The blackjack tail as if looking for a target , |
| 8 | They had waterskied , swooping round the northern end of Inch Island , making great arcs along the shore , as if looking for something . |
| 9 | All three glanced about the dockside , as if looking for somebody else . |
| 10 | Fortunately , Nevil was n't looking in his mirror , he had his head out of the driver 's window as if looking for a street name . |
| 11 | John Harbour , as if looking into a mirror , leaned chummily against Babs Osborne and stared adoringly at the camera . |
| 12 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 13 | To my knowledge , cranks and dreamers have gone around talking about and looking for Homo superior ever since the primitive times when writers still used paper . |
| 14 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |