Example sentences of "was n't looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 2 | She came out of the room , pulling her bag of soiled linen , and because she was n't looking where she was going , almost cannoned into a tall dark girl . |
| 3 | Then , when the boy was n't looking in his direction he hurled it towards the pool . |
| 4 | He could , because Mrs Wright was n't looking at him . |
| 5 | And your Governor was n't looking where he was going , it was very silly of him . |
| 6 | Miss Harker was n't looking at the board . |
| 7 | For eight years Endill roamed around the big house , helping make the soups , walking through the hills , digging up the vegetables , bumping into his father by mistake and unscrewing the furniture when his mother was n't looking . |
| 8 | Matron again helped pupils when the Headmaster was n't looking . |
| 9 | ‘ They became lovers whilst I was n't looking , ’ said Kazan . |
| 10 | Then , when the Laird was n't looking , they would dig Joicey up and help him home . |
| 11 | He was n't looking forward to meeting them , for all that . |
| 12 | Vern was n't looking at anything . |
| 13 | But this afternoon she was n't looking for spare rides . |
| 14 | Anwar even scoffed pork pies as long as Jeeta was n't looking . |
| 15 | He was n't looking forward to the interview . |
| 16 | Upon opening the Carlton Standard 's case , and after being initially overjoyed that I was n't looking at yet another Strat derivative , I must admit that my aesthetic values were backed into a corner while I tried to work out exactly what I was looking at . |
| 17 | Daisy wished just for once that Drew could see her when she was n't looking awful . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 19 | He just waved her away and turned his back on us , and while he was n't looking Mum whispered in Billy 's ear : ‘ Yer wunt ter keep that up fer yer bung ! ’ |
| 20 | I 'm being uncharitable possibly , but I wonder if Deanes was n't looking forward to a little publicity over Pardy 's case to promote his book ? |
| 21 | To tell you the truth , I was n't looking forward to it . |
| 22 | They played together co-operatively with a set of cars but once Tom decided that one of the cars was his favourite Sue quietly took it when he was n't looking . |
| 23 | After Richard reminded me of the problems I was about to face following that first flight , I was n't looking forward to the next flying lesson . |
| 24 | Confounded by this reply , Oscar looked across at the other man to see that he was n't looking at the stars at all , but was still busying himself with the body . |
| 25 | He was n't looking at me . |
| 26 | He was n't looking at me . |
| 27 | " Mary was n't looking and I found the experience very pleasant . |
| 28 | The Tarn is home to many varieties of water fowl including the curlew , the greater crested grebe and the lesser spotted sandwich-pinching duck , one specimen of which had my last tuna-fish butty while I was n't looking . |
| 29 | Whenever Doris was n't looking , Charlie would play peek-a-boo with her and she would stare at him stonily for a minute and then turn her head pointedly away . |
| 30 | It had more to do with the easy communion between Katherine and Thomas Sachs , the way his eyes sometimes fell on her when she was n't looking . |