Example sentences of "[pron] was looking for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ I was looking for something else . ’ |
| 2 | I was looking for something fast and reliable , but not ostentatious . |
| 3 | He said between gasps : ‘ I was looking for something . ’ |
| 4 | I was looking for something in my own handwriting . |
| 5 | I knew I was looking for something . |
| 6 | Well it 's Sunday I was looking for something nothing ? |
| 7 | That 's , that 's from er I was looking for something else where did I wonder what I 've done with those . |
| 8 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 9 | But I was looking for someone else . |
| 10 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
| 11 | I did n't know about it , I did n't even know she was looking for one then . |
| 12 | Well she was th mm she was looking for she was looking for somebody Re , who was in a particular age group . |
| 13 | She was looking for something memorable , probably for the first time in two years , and he did n't want to deny her that . |
| 14 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 15 | Instead , there were rustlings , faint and unintelligible mutterings suggesting that she was looking for something , more footsteps going downstairs , a sharp sound like the slamming of a door and then complete silence . |
| 16 | It sounded as if she was looking for something . |
| 17 | She moved , as she often did , from pure , concentrated malice , to a vaguely girlish mode , as if she was looking for someone ( not Henry ) to put his arms round her and tell her everything was all right . |
| 18 | Delaney thought about it , and decided it did n't make sense , unless it was looking for something that it badly needed . |
| 19 | And er he he was having a conference in , course with dropping out of the Labour Party , the Labour Party finished with him and did n't bother and anyw he he someone I do n't know who it was , it was n't him himself but someone told me that he was looking for somebody to organize this conference in , so I said , Well I I 'll do it . |
| 20 | He wished to know not simply that he was looking for something , but what it was and what it looked like . |
| 21 | Though he did n't say so , he was looking for something more satisfactory for himself and Sien , and perhaps for an extended family if her mother and brother joined them later . |
| 22 | He was looking for something along the lines of Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy , an American from nowhere , and all the actors coming in were doing an Andrew Dice Clay or Billy Idol number . |
| 23 | It was as if he was looking for something so ill-defined , so vaguely comprehended that even he could not say what it was . |
| 24 | He was looking for something . |
| 25 | He was looking for something that day ; he said it was a book . |
| 26 | I got the impression he was looking for something to hit . |
| 27 | He was looking for something which immobilised the car and gave an audible warning if it was broken into . ’ |
| 28 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |