Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you have only very few Windows applications , or enjoy looking at the background ( which may be changed to something prettier ) enlarge the Program Manager to fill the entire screen . |
| 2 | Not cocky enough not to watch my speed , though , nor to keep looking in the rearview mirror . |
| 3 | I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while . |
| 4 | He prefers to have opponents come to him rather than go looking for them , ’ said Lambton Street club secretary Frank Jardine , who will again be in Parry 's corner . |
| 5 | And that means looking at the audit schedule out front so that you , you 're not . |
| 6 | Then there was a long pause during which Sophie drank her coffee and avoided looking at her companion . |
| 7 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 8 | The domestic skills I had acquired at school and perfected looking after Father when Mother died , were not skills valued by Helmut . |
| 9 | Kate obtains a copy of Sheila Kitzinger 's The New Good Birth Guide and Gordon Bourne 's Pregnancy and starts looking for a hospital that gets two stars and is nearby . |
| 10 | He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them . |
| 11 | This man with long greasy hair and a sleeping bag sort of rolled into a ball comes over and starts looking in the bins . |
| 12 | Now there 's time for Peter to relax and enjoy looking at photographs of a recent trip to France organised by the centre . |
| 13 | And then , ‘ Oh , eat your lunch and stop looking at me with those great spaniel eyes . |
| 14 | In Winter we 're digging and in summer we eat outside as much as possible and enjoy looking at the fruits of our labour . " |
| 15 | ‘ We all think maintenance is as important as landscaping , and enjoy looking after the gardens we have made , ’ she adds . |
| 16 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 17 | The next thing I recall is hearing Daniel 's screams and going looking for him . |
| 18 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 19 | Albert fell prey to his nightly fantasies of living with Bella again and began looking at Jim with rage in his heart toward the wet blanket who was preventing it . |
| 20 | The group was given the go-ahead and began looking at all options . |
| 21 | The prosecution at Teesside Crown Couret claims Bruce walked into Jenny Knight 's home in Middleton St George , near Darlington , and began looking at her belongings and putting aside pieces he wanted . |
| 22 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 23 | A stocky male figure entered from a room at the rear and began looking for something beneath the counter . |
| 24 | He took out pencil and paper and began looking through the letters . |
| 25 | I think they gave up on me and started looking for Finlayson instead . |
| 26 | She opened her briefcase , and started looking through the papers in it . |
| 27 | You feel it most keenly when you 're walking alone and keep looking behind you , sure that something 's there . |
| 28 | After a while , he removed his mouth from her nipple and lay looking at her breasts , as though to memorize every curve and line . |
| 29 | Everyone thought he was a patient and kept looking at him when his Mum called names out . |
| 30 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |