Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be looking [prep] " 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 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 5 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned . |
| 8 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 9 | As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out , he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him . |
| 10 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 11 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 12 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 13 | A friend had been looking after them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you remember last year when your cousin Hamed was looking for a bride ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were barely inside the front door when the elderly housekeeper appeared and told Cinzia that Signorina Cook had been looking for her . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , is n't that a terrible poor ibex ! ’ exclaimed Mrs Healy , having identified easily what the girls had been looking at . |
| 19 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 20 | Virgin 's application was just the bargaining chip the Americans had been looking for . |
| 21 | NEWCASTLE United are looking to their supporters to ease their mounting financial burden . |
| 22 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 23 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 24 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 25 | Manager Alan Murray had been looking for somebody to replace the unlucky Saville , who broke his arm hours after his Pool debut a fortnight ago in a freak restaurant accident . |
| 26 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 27 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 28 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 29 | ‘ At the Polish centre they told me that Marek Nowak had been looking into his father 's life . |
| 30 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |