Example sentences of "have be looking [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
| 2 | If Kenny Shields is n't allowed to buy players soon , instead of being expected to rely on free transfers etc , then it is going to be a very , very long season for all at Carrick when everyone has been looking forward to so much . |
| 3 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 4 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 5 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 6 | Was it still remotely possible that , in spite of everything , he 'd been looking forward to having her here with him as his wife ? |
| 7 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 8 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 9 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 10 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 11 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 12 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 13 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 14 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 15 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 16 | Delaney turned aside , and was about to ask Forster if he 'd found the cargo manifest , when Nell , who had been looking over his shoulder , spoke . |
| 17 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 18 | Fei Yen had been looking up from beneath her lashes , her pose the very image of demure , obedient womanhood . |
| 19 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 20 | He had been looking forward to showing it all to her . |
| 21 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 22 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 23 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |
| 24 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 25 | He had been looking forward to ‘ getting away ’ as he put it , perhaps because it sounded more therapeutic than ‘ going on holiday ’ . |
| 26 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 27 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 28 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 29 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 30 | Gradually , during his visits there , he began to tell her how much he had been looking forward to it , and confided how he would remember their ‘ walking the policies , ( which is what Delia Sutherland called a businesslike like across her property ) and sitting up late at night drinking brandy , discussing plans . |