Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] he [be] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead . |
| 2 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 3 | I do n't know what he was looking for , some guilt , some shame , some scandal , I do n't know — but it just is n't there , I suppose . |
| 4 | No movement that he could see , with or without the aid of the binoculars — but then he did n't really know what he was looking for , whilst Windeler had seemed far more assured . |
| 5 | He did n't know what he was looking for . |
| 6 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 7 | From November ‘ 74 he began to find what he was looking for . |
| 8 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 9 | At last he found what he was looking for : horses had stood there . |
| 10 | I told him he was looking for the mother he 'd never had , but of course he would n't listen . |
| 11 | I do n't think he finds what he 's looking for , cos after he looks in all the bins he goes off without taking nothing out . |
| 12 | We knew what he was looking for and it was n't there . |
| 13 | Edouard knew what he was looking for , a Picasso , a Matisse , whose medium was not paint but rare stones and precious metals ; the genius who would be the linchpin of his whole enterprise . |
| 14 | Other methods of meeting the organisation 's needs were considered , but Mr Nabakov knew what he was looking for : ‘ I wanted a nuts and bolts accounting system , like Platinum , and it is also highly flexible . |
| 15 | no well he knew what he were looking for , something worth when you think |
| 16 | In the far corner of the garden Charles saw what he was looking for . |
| 17 | He smiled in satisfaction as he saw what he was looking for , tapped Larsen 's arm and pointed upwards . |
| 18 | ‘ Has the inspector discovered what he was looking for ? ’ |
| 19 | ( b ) He must take reasonable steps to explain what he is looking for and the basis of his suspicion ( s.2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 20 | He kept a tantalizing silence until she prodded him to say what he was looking for . |
| 21 | I du n no what he 's looking for — maybe he lost summat . |
| 22 | The social anthropologist can find what he is looking for in either . |
| 23 | Reynolds had only the vaguest memory of his search of the Evergreens , but he thought he could find what he was looking for . |
| 24 | He obviously did n't find what he was looking for , because he pushed her none too gently out of the way , then strode into the small room at the back of the house , where she slept . |