Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [be] looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 2 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 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 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 5 | The powerful midfielder , Mauro Silva , was the playmaker they had been looking to build the team around . |
| 6 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 7 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 8 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 9 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 10 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 11 | Or how about if he realised that the real reason I had been looking ‘ better ’ lately had something to do with a £6.99 bargain hair colourant from Clairol ? |
| 12 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 13 | The nurse who had been looking after Julie escorted her to theatre and stayed with her until she had been introduced to the theatre nurse . |
| 14 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 15 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 16 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 17 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 18 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |
| 19 | He turned sharply from the french window and the view he had been looking at so intently . |