Example sentences of "had been looking for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 2 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |