Example sentences of "[was/were] looking [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 2 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 3 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 4 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 5 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 6 | All had their sails up and all were looking out to the Solent , not back towards the red foils approaching them at 35 knots . |
| 7 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 8 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 9 | Rohmer was looking up into the sky as the vortex of smoke and steam was greedily sucked skywards into the black roiling clouds of the storm . |
| 10 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 11 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 12 | " 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 . |
| 13 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 14 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 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 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 18 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 19 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A middle-aged woman , wearing what looked like a turban , was looking out at the night . |
| 22 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 23 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 24 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thomas Sachs was looking out of the back window . |
| 29 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 30 | Anne was looking out of the window at the reds and yellows of the trees , and the silvery blue of the river . |