Example sentences of "be look at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 2 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 3 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been looking at me , your eldest son , Karim . |
| 6 | ‘ No it 's not ’ , said a Scots Nationalist friend one day — very rude to me — ‘ it 's not cosmopolitan , it 's colonial ’ , and he had been looking at me and thinking ‘ here 's one of those damned Englishmen sponging on the Scots , making a good thing out of them ’ . |
| 7 | I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping . |
| 8 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 9 | I have been looking at it . |
| 10 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 11 | But while I am looking at it my eyes constantly wander from one flower to the next , pausing at some , ignoring others , picking out the details of their shapes and colours . |
| 12 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 13 | ‘ You are looking at me , Joe ? ’ she said . |
| 14 | I mean some people are looking at me as though I 've just revealed some dread secret |
| 15 | ‘ Do you know how you are looking at me ? ’ he asked fiercely , but as she only shook her head he tilted her face and searched frustratedly for her mouth , crushing her against him . |
| 16 | ‘ She is blushing , ’ continued Tess bravely , ‘ because you are looking at her . ’ |
| 17 | So that you are actually creating the drama for the people that are looking at you . |
| 18 | We become aware that people are looking at us . |
| 19 | And we do n't like it when people are looking at us … |
| 20 | ‘ People are looking at us , Carter . |
| 21 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 22 | That said , the whole area of interactive video — if that is indeed where your proposal lies — is so far from being a developed market that we are looking at it only in the most tentative of ways . |
| 23 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 24 | Your finger will no longer be aligned with the picture — because you are looking at it from a slightly different direction ; your eyes are not in the same place . |
| 25 | ‘ You are looking at it . ’ |
| 26 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |
| 27 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 28 | They would have had to have done it within three weeks anyway and I think the way they are looking at it if they do that tomorrow then they 're counting from then till the next stage . |
| 29 | They have been spending a lot of money on training , but what they 're doing now is localizing it , so training for Oxfordshire , which is different from training for somewhere like Liverpool , it 's got a lot more unemployed , it 's now not in the hands of the old training agency or manpower service commission , and we are looking at it completely afresh . |
| 30 | So we 're looking at we 're looking at nine fifty . |