Example sentences of "i was look " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said . |
| 2 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ I was looking for something else . ’ |
| 3 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 4 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 5 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 6 | ‘ I was looking after her chickens for her until she came home , ’ Liam had cried in the chapel . |
| 7 | ‘ I was looking for you all over . |
| 8 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 9 | As a producer ‘ Space Oddity ’ was very important to me as it was only my second or third record and I was looking forward to seeing David play it live . |
| 10 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 11 | I was looking forward to a couple of hours of vigorous strolling in the company of what I assumed would be a garrulous , suitably eccentric English guide . |
| 12 | ‘ I was looking forward to the ride . |
| 13 | I was looking for your number once . |
| 14 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 15 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 16 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 17 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
| 18 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |
| 19 | I felt that I was looking right into the worms of pain in his skull , but they turned into slugs trying to eat their own tails . |
| 20 | I was looking forward to starting and I could n't wait to get home and tell Mum about it . |
| 21 | I was looking forward to being a guest in Ireland for the first time , instead of merely a paying guest . |
| 22 | I was looking around , seeing where to go , when a black man took my arm . |
| 23 | ‘ I was looking forward to the film because there is a beginning and an end , and I knew where the character was going . ’ |
| 24 | I was looking forward to the film because there 's a beginning and an end , and I knew exactly where the character was going . |
| 25 | I was looking through the material again last night : it 's unique ! |
| 26 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 27 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 28 | I never wilted and was proud of my fighting qualities when I was looking for survival and happy for any form of success . |
| 29 | When I went to Highlander I was looking for a way which could help towards more effective participation and the development of better non-formal opportunities in adult education on social issues which affect communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 30 | I was looking for a way out into the aisle . |