Example sentences of "looking [prep] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | minutes he was looking through all the advertisements for civil engineering . |
| 2 | And when you get to the branch you get your bumf and you sit there looking through all the bumf . |
| 3 | There is a slowly burgeoning market for this type of entertainment , with many music and arts societies looking for such a programme . |
| 4 | Einstein spent the later years of his life looking for such a theory . |
| 5 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 6 | This blocky layer is carried along on top of the moving flow , looking for all the world like rocks on a conveyor belt in a quarry . |
| 7 | The distinctive leaves of Begonia grandis evansiana , looking for all the world like an escaped house plant , but hardy enough to grow outside , are also grown in abundance . |
| 8 | A few days later a 69 Squadron Maryland approached the airfield , looking for all the world like a Ju88 . |
| 9 | And as we are unlikely to see any real harmonisation of accounting procedures , fiscal requirements or business practices throughout the Community in the near future , pan-European accounting systems will be increasingly important to the large number of UK companies looking for all the help they can get . |
| 10 | Bellybutton , a straw hat over his eyes , danced a few ludicrous steps on the deck of the workboat , thus looking for all the world like a simple Bahamian native welcoming the nice white folks from Georgia who now stood blinking in the bright sunlight beside a growing mound of their designer-label luggage . |
| 11 | Either you can sort through your collection looking for all the smallest items , or you can cheat and use parts of larger pieces of pressed flowers or foliage . |
| 12 | In the corner of the pool sat Debbie Harry who leant into my face and — looking for all the world like Benny Hill 's mum — said ‘ Is this the same James Brown who championed The Wonder Stuff and Happy Mondays ? |
| 13 | He sat in the low chair with his head bowed , looking for all the world like a genius deep in contemplation , though in fact he was fast asleep . |
| 14 | Er oh I did have one Polish lad who 's now left who used to go round looking for all the cans and he 'd then collect the ten p's ! |
| 15 | We visited Sanur Beach , where we painted fishermen working on their outrigger boats , extraordinary craft with huge ‘ arms ’ , looking for all the world like giant multi-coloured sea creatures . |
| 16 | The work was unplaced , but the concept was electrifying — a smooth , lacquered black box with an ominous bulge at one end , looking for all the world as if something inside wanted to escape . |
| 17 | He left the set that day looking for all the world like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the beach bully . |
| 18 | The housekeeper was in charge of mending and looking after all the linen from the various parts of the house . |
| 19 | SHe smiled slyly , looking like all the paintings of powerful seductresses in all the world and twice as lovely . |
| 20 | Are these projectural figures which he showed us the cash flow chart over there looking like half a pyramid ? |
| 21 | It is essentially a matter of looking into all the factual issues which one believes likely to affect one 's attitudes on the issue , or which are likely to affect the attitudes of those debating it with one . |
| 22 | ‘ We are looking into all the possibilities . ’ |
| 23 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 24 | But already the 11.54 was steaming into the station , and Perks was looking in all the windows . |
| 25 | He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea . |
| 26 | Looking at all the brightest and best on display in Birmingham , I was reminded of some comments made in the early '80s by the late Gordon Brown , then head of design for GM 's European passenger cars . |
| 27 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 28 | Held : By looking at all the circumstances , it was clear that Leonard was self-employed . |
| 29 | walk in like that and you 're looking at all the things in the shop not where |
| 30 | Now we performed uni-variant analysis looking at all the parameters shown on the left . |