Example sentences of "[conj] looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope you are well & looking forward to the sunshine . |
| 2 | In that state they became ‘ sylvan demons ’ , ‘ either falling into a deep slumber or looking around for a fight . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes one or other would roam round the room picking things up , examining them and putting them down again ; or looking with unfocused eyes at nothing at all . |
| 4 | All I wish to do here is to suggest that there are other ways of understanding or looking at extremes of penitential life which can suggest in them sources , not of neurotic repression but of freedom and self-ownership . |
| 5 | Groups of soldiers on the streets of Plzeň , lounging or looking in shop windows . |
| 6 | He prefered doing quiet things like throwing stones in the water or looking for his parents . |
| 7 | be ready to make informed guesses , and to correct themselves in the light of additional information , eg by reading ahead or looking back in the text ; |
| 8 | If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall . |
| 9 | If you had asked him , I suppose that he would not have been able to give a very convincing answer as to why he was walking , or looking , or watching in such an apparently random and obsessive fashion . |
| 10 | But if you have to choose one market and you 're producing for or looking to sell to TV , then MIP-TV is probably the better place . |
| 11 | The alternatives are letter , fax , or looking for the British agent in the ads . |
| 12 | They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way . |
| 13 | Now I can put both feet flat on the floor and stand up straight without slouching or bending a knee or looking strained in any way . |
| 14 | However old or ill one might be , there is something healing and comforting about stroking the soft fur of a purring cat or looking into the trusting eyes of a faithful dog . |
| 15 | I had met him every day of my life in England : punching my ticket on a ‘ bus , cutting my hair , selling me an evening newspaper or looking after the engine of my aeroplane . |
| 16 | Points were awarded for where information was repeated ; for example , for the sentence ‘ I saw a man with a telescope ’ , the reading where the prepositional phrase attaches to the verb would score more highly because ‘ telescope ’ was defined as a thing for seeing or looking with . |
| 17 | This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home . |
| 18 | A person who is partially sighted may not be able to see whether you are smiling or looking bored . |
| 19 | Many women spend some years away from paid employment bringing up children or looking after elderly or disabled relatives . |
| 20 | So long as we looked upon the production of value and the value of the product of capital individually , the bodily form of the commodities produced was wholly immaterial for the analysis , whether it was machines , for instance , corn , or looking glasses . |
| 21 | They never stopped eating or talking or looking at people performing . |
| 22 | Some of their happiest hours together were spent driving , or looking at cars , or simply in the huge garages at St-Cloud , where Grégoire would contentedly remove wheels , and then replace them , and Edouard would contentedly watch him . |
| 23 | Whether you are starting a pond from scratch , or looking for fish to supplement existing stock , buying Koi is one of the most challenging and exciting moments of the hobby . |
| 24 | The great spread of drug-taking among the young during this time can also be seen either as ‘ doing it for kicks ’ or looking for a road out of materialistic culture . |
| 25 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 26 | e.g. by opening or looking over it . |
| 27 | Next time you find yourself queuing to have your photo taken on the Cantilever in Snowdonia , or looking for a vacant shelter to eat your sandwiches in on Scafell Pike , stop and look to the west . |
| 28 | I 'd often see birds with gut or wire wrapped around their necks or wings , or looking ill because , as I discovered later , they 'd swallowed lead shot which the anglers used to weight their lines . |
| 29 | Olwen drove , and evolved a schedule of visiting her numerous girlfriends or looking for bargains in the shops whilst the others pitched the local council or union . |
| 30 | Many books deal with women at work , perhaps focusing briefly on their dual role at work and home , or looking at housework , but not exploring the extent to which women work and contribute to the work process . |