Example sentences of "[vb past] been look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 2 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 3 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 4 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 5 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 6 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 7 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 8 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 10 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 11 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 12 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 13 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 14 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 15 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 16 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 17 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 18 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 19 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 20 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 21 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 22 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 23 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 24 | The maypole committee , of which Amos was president , had been looking for ways of raising funds for the May weekend and old folks ' treat ( of which more later ) , the most important weekend in the lives of the villagers . |
| 25 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 26 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 27 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 28 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 29 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 30 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |