Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 2 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 5 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | She 'd been looking after her father , who 'd become ill , probably because of the fumes . |
| 8 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 11 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 12 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 13 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Rain said quickly , deducing she had been looking bored . |
| 16 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's been looking after Angharad , ’ said Beuno . |
| 22 | Today she 's been looking to see what steps are being taken in the nation 's capital , to try and make life easier . |
| 23 | No she she 's been looking but I do n't know if she 's still looking , I do n't know . |
| 24 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |