Example sentences of "[pron] was look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 2 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 3 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 4 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 5 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 6 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 7 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 8 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 9 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 10 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 11 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 12 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 13 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 14 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 15 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 16 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 17 | When they had gone , Maria glanced at Luke , but to her relief he was looking down at the photos Florian had left behind , his expression inscrutable . |
| 18 | He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his . |
| 19 | He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes . |
| 20 | Sitting safe in the big tree , hidden within the protective myriad of bough , branch and leaf , he was submerged in a greenish half-light filtered through layer upon layer of natural growth , and he was looking out from the dimming or dappling shelter of his high cave into the dazzle of a rare summer brightness beyond . |
| 21 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |