Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 35 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 ! |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 ! |
| 42 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 43 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 46 | Somebody had been looking for something . |
| 47 | Virgin 's application was just the bargaining chip the Americans had been looking for . |
| 48 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 49 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |
| 50 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 53 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 54 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 55 | They were barely inside the front door when the elderly housekeeper appeared and told Cinzia that Signorina Cook had been looking for her . |
| 56 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 57 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 58 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 59 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
| 60 | Manager Alan Murray had been looking for somebody to replace the unlucky Saville , who broke his arm hours after his Pool debut a fortnight ago in a freak restaurant accident . |