Example sentences of "looking [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 2 | I find that quite incredible , if it 's true erm if it 's true then it 's a very serious allegation which Labour is making against the officers in social services department and I imagine that if er , that if those numbers are proven then er I I shall be looking I shall be looking for scalps because I have been , I would have been , so would the Liberal party and so would the Labour party , have been wrongly informed . |
| 3 | Nick , of nearby Radstock , said his family — wife Melanie and daughters Abigail , 12 , Beth , 10 and Charlotte , nine — were looking for feathers when they found the shoes . |
| 4 | A search-light may scan the sky looking for aeroplanes or it may move to that part of the sky where they are expected to be . |
| 5 | I said I doubt QPR would accept that much … but she said that Gerry Francis ( that ex Suffragette/Black/Leeds player ; - ) ) is looking for replacements as he is resigned to losing Bardsley … not necessarily to Leeds Id imagine . |
| 6 | Ludo was hovering on the landing in his size forty-six pyjamas , looking for ways that he could help . |
| 7 | Large demands have to be floated gently and you must stay in touch with the other party 's reactions by looking for signals that they are being pushed too far or too fast . |
| 8 | What more cheering than to see distracted people looking for seats when we were definitely full up ? … |
| 9 | Designs on the screen are most often knitted from bottom to top , so looking for colours as they appear in the design from bottom to top and left to right is an accurate way of assessing where colours are brought into the work and their order . |
| 10 | It states : I am currently looking at carpets as I need to replace the Stoddard Super Sax in my drawing room which was purchased around 28 years ' ago . |
| 11 | That 's it yeah , it 's not very easy walking around looking at things when you 've got the kids tagging along with you |
| 12 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 13 | And er and she said he enjoys it and he goes to playgroup I think he must go to Dennington playgroup cos he 's going to Dennington school , and he enjoys sitting down and being , likes looking at books and he 's started writing and she said actually she said I 'm really panicking because I 'm frightened that I might be teaching him wrong and that I 'm I said well why do n't you pop in and have a word at the school ? |
| 14 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |