Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 7 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 8 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 9 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |
| 10 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 11 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 12 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 13 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 14 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 15 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 16 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 17 | She 'd been looking after her father , who 'd become ill , probably because of the fumes . |
| 18 | Joshua grabbed Hyacinth by the arm — she had been looking as if she were about to attack her victim 's other eye — and steered her away . |
| 19 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 20 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 21 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 22 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 23 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 24 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 25 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 29 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 30 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |