Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 4 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 5 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 6 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 7 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 8 | A friend had been looking after them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | HP CEO John Young told a meeting of analysts last week that HP had been looking at both the USL and OSF kernels , but had no plans in place to license USL technology . |
| 11 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 12 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 13 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 14 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 15 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |