Example sentences of "she had [be] looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 2 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 3 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 4 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 5 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 6 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 7 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 8 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Rain said quickly , deducing she had been looking bored . |
| 9 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 10 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 11 | Joshua grabbed Hyacinth by the arm — she had been looking as if she were about to attack her victim 's other eye — and steered her away . |
| 12 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 13 | For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht . |