Example sentences of "was look for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Cook always used to say he did n't know why I was looking for myself , he knew exactly where I was ! |
| 2 | He was Looking for me . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought the longer it went on , the better it was looking for me . ’ |
| 4 | He turned round often enough to let me know he was looking for me . |
| 5 | Where a host of crooks was looking for me . |
| 6 | It was looking for me . |
| 7 | That day he came into Frank Green 's shop he was looking for me , and his seeing me with you nearly blew the whole thing . |
| 8 | And on the other hand , a gorilla in a Top Shop suit called Nevil was looking for me , though he had n't bargained for Lisabeth 's own version of the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme . |
| 9 | I did n't know about it , I did n't even know she was looking for one then . |
| 10 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ I was looking for something else . ’ |
| 11 | Delaney thought about it , and decided it did n't make sense , unless it was looking for something that it badly needed . |
| 12 | He wished to know not simply that he was looking for something , but what it was and what it looked like . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If there was not , A might still believe that B was looking for something to steal , which could constitute an attempt to steal under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 notwithstanding that there was nothing there that B would have stolen . |
| 16 | It was as if he was looking for something so ill-defined , so vaguely comprehended that even he could not say what it was . |
| 17 | I was looking for something fast and reliable , but not ostentatious . |
| 18 | She was looking for something memorable , probably for the first time in two years , and he did n't want to deny her that . |
| 19 | He was looking for something . |
| 20 | He was looking for something that day ; he said it was a book . |
| 21 | He said between gasps : ‘ I was looking for something . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It sounded as if she was looking for something . |
| 25 | I got the impression he was looking for something to hit . |
| 26 | I was looking for something in my own handwriting . |
| 27 | I think he had just got bored and was looking for something to do , so he sought to amuse . ’ |
| 28 | The RAF was looking for something to work in the arctic , the desert . |
| 29 | He was looking for something which immobilised the car and gave an audible warning if it was broken into . ’ |
| 30 | I knew I was looking for something . |