Example sentences of "looking [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes — bedroom , bathroom , a door opening on to a section of enclosed veranda , and an open veranda beyond that , looking down on to a rather beautiful tropical garden . |
| 2 | She had to sit down , she thought , looking dazedly around for a chair . |
| 3 | The sound that had made O look up came from a man who was sitting on the floor , leaning against the wall of the tunnel , looking not much like a beggar , but just someone worn out ; perhaps he had collapsed there and was resting . |
| 4 | And a proclamation went out to everyone who lived far and near to say that he was looking not only for a beautiful wife , but also the most worthy wife that could be found . |
| 5 | He gestured towards the door , where Hilary Frome was standing , flaunting his fair hair and profile , and looking still more like an illustration of one of Baden Powell 's scouting manuals ; a fine specimen of British boyhood , who in only a matter of a year or two might be imagined assuming the burden of Empire , and administering imperial justice with rod and gun to one or other of the lesser breeds without the law . |
| 6 | And suddenly , as an uproar began in her , Azor was forgotten , and she jerked to stand upright , and found she was looking straight up into a pair of dark smouldering eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ Plenty of fluids , and if he is n't looking decidedly better in a couple of days , come back and we 'll take another look , but I 'm sure you do n't need to worry . ’ |
| 8 | The important thing , as John Wain was to put it years later in ‘ The Vanishing Critic ’ , looking back wonderingly over a good quarter-century at his own vanished youth , was ‘ to respond to life with one 's emotional priorities in the right order . ’ |
| 9 | Had we a powerful industrial policy in the nineteen eighties , would we be looking back now at a crisis of industrial investment in the nineteen nineties ? |
| 10 | Jess looked round the big kitchen ; at the dresser full of blue and white china ; the copper kettle hanging steaming over the fire ; the tubs and jugs and iron pans ; the rough whitewashed walls and the big sash window looking out on to a rising kitchen garden . |
| 11 | Bar/Breakfast room looking out on to a small patio . |
| 12 | There was no room service and we were breakfasting in the hotel dining-room at a table looking out on to a square adorned by several yuccas and some dusty oleanders . |
| 13 | Instead she found herself remembering things she had disliked about the flat — the row of closed doors in the long dark passage , the kitchen looking out on to a brick wall , the occasional stiflingly hot summer evening when she had longed to be in the country . |
| 14 | Looking around then for a non-union post he succeeded in getting an appointment to the Script Department at Ealing Studios , a complex famous the world over for its comedies . |
| 15 | Next minute Miss Lodsworth 's head appeared over the half-door , looking even more like a horse than Wayne . |
| 16 | I was looking then only at an empty stretch of spaceport beyond the comm-booth that she 'd called from . |
| 17 | In 1990 we heralded the dawning of a New Europe — in 1992 we can advance as true Europeans , looking forward especially to a closer partnership with our friends in Dieppe , Rouen and Lille . |
| 18 | The Femidom is a new female condom looking very much like a larger version of the male variety , except these things are ribbed at both ends , a bit like a fisherman 's keep net . |
| 19 | I 'm looking very hard for a new amp as a 30th anniversary present to myself and would really like to own a quality ( loud ! ) amp which I can carry in one hand . |