He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

`` You mean you dragged your wife all over hell's half-acre looking for work ''??

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

Now, she just sat there looking at him, without an expression except concern for him.

Perry Mason and Hamilton Burger, Nero Wolfe and Inspector Cramer spend more time fighting each other than they do in looking for the criminal.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

He hadn't worn a watch or carried pocket money for years because he disliked both, but highest among his hates were looking glasses: he had snatched one from an officer's grasp and smashed it to smithereens.

With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.

Up to now, Gorton had been looking for trouble, and now that he was trying to get away from it, trouble started looking for him.

Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.

The movement toward European unity has been expressed in two currents: federalism and functionalism, one looking to the constitution of a United States of Europe, the other building on wartime precedents of practical cooperation for the solution of specific problems.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

In his article, " From the Imaginary Signifier: Identification, Mirror ," Christian Metz argues that viewing film is only possible through scopophilia ( pleasure from looking, related to voyeurism ), which is best exemplified in silent film.

A 2003 study looking at the Flynn effect in Kenya between 1984 and 1998 found that the increase was best explained by parents ' literacy, family structure, and children's nutrition and health.

As for the Hobbesians, Singer attempts a response in the final chapter of Practical Ethics, arguing that self-interested reasons support adoption of the moral point of view, such as ' the paradox of hedonism ', which counsels that happiness is best found by not looking for it, and the need most people feel to relate to something larger than their own concerns.

The bowman may steer since he has the best vision when looking over his shoulder.

The book depicts a civilization that travels between star systems with the aid of electronic computers, but they have to be " programmed " on the spot, and elementary computing operations ( which modern computers are actually at their best at ), such as calculating trigonometric functions and logarithms, and converting between decimal and binary numbers, must be done by looking up values in books of tables.

When he was looking for the best path for one of his tracks to take, he went on horseback and scouted it personally.

If a person sets up a camera to photograph the moon when they are not looking at it, then at best they determine that there is an image of the moon in the camera when they eventually look at it.

The child who takes more time to master simple multiplication 1 ) may best learn to multiply through a different approach, 2 ) may excel in a field outside of mathematics, or 3 ) may even be looking at and understanding the multiplication process at a fundamentally deeper level, or perhaps as an entirely different process.

The frequent trimming, brushing, and bathing required to keep the Bichon looking its best removes hair and dander and controls the other potent allergen, saliva.

Rather than looking out for the best use of the land, the Mouride cultivators are more interested in a fast payback.

Like many long-haired cats, Himalayans need to be brushed daily to keep their coats looking their best and healthiest.

Each man plays a Hollywood archetype — self-absorbed multi-Oscar-winning Aussie method actor Kirk Lazarus ( Downey ), aging action hero desperately looking to reinvent himself as a serious actor ( Stiller ), and overweight heroin-addicted self-destructive comic best known for portraying multiple characters in a franchise of comedies about a family that farts in every film ( Black )— as they star in an extremely expensive Vietnam-era film called Tropic Thunder.

He thought that history could best be understood by looking at the small histories of anonymous people, rather than by focusing on major events such as wars and political pacts.

Deidre seems to want the best for her ex-husband Arthur and dislikes him looking after his mother.

Online publication Slate Magazine named the characters of Cheryl David and Susie Greene as two of the best on television and as reasons they were looking forward to the return of the show in the fall of 2007.

* Michael Elphick as Magowan ( Series 1 ): A violent, alcoholic thug who was always looking for trouble, yet was never fired for his antics as he was one of the best bricklayers on site.

One of the reasons that she helped make Go so popular was because she was called " best looking Go professional ".

I'm constantly looking for someone to pull the best performance out of me and any of those guys could.

Competition blossomed, as teens strove to have the best dress, the best mode of transportation, and the best looking date.

The Nets were looking for a more physical big man to compete with Shaquille O ' Neal and Tim Duncan, two of the best big men in the league who also led championship-caliber teams in the West.

A second round of funding was provided by Kubota Corporation, a Japanese heavy industries player ( best known in North America for their tractors ) who was cash-flush and looking for new opportunities.

In general, modernists saw themselves as looking back to the best practices of poets in earlier periods and other cultures.