Example sentences of "she [vb past] [be] 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 . |