Sentence examples for was sniffing around from inspiring English sources

After his opponent's placid 16 Qa2?!, Ivanchuk was emboldened to play 16... h5!? Since Hansen had taken his queen far from the kingside, Ivanchuk was sniffing around to see what he might do there.

Barnett J. Devine, Business Executive, Beverly Hills, California (shown with accountant, Maury Zipkin): Well, when I heard that the I.R.S. was sniffing around, I right away decided to marry my accountant, Maury Zipkin, so he couldn't be forced to testify against me.

Suppliers knew that Apple was sniffing around and so they kept prices high.

He was sniffing around London".

But the share price soon overshot that level, suggesting that another buyer was sniffing around.

"I was sniffing around that; we needed a D.H.," Minnesota General Manager Terry Ryan said.

Irish corporate money is sniffing around too.

"With a dog, you're going slowly because she's sniffing around," Ms. Lutz said.

Some starry-eyed chefs and restaurateurs are sniffing around, he said, adding, "There's action".

"But that's not the role of the archive, to be sniffing around and blocking things".

Multilateral organisations and aid agencies are sniffing around as well, their laptops full of policy suggestions.