Example sentences of "'d be look " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 3 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 4 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 7 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 8 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 9 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 12 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 13 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 16 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 17 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 18 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 19 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 20 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 21 | Was it still remotely possible that , in spite of everything , he 'd been looking forward to having her here with him as his wife ? |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | She 'd been looking after her father , who 'd become ill , probably because of the fumes . |
| 24 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |