Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be look for " in BNC.

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1 So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for .
2 During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus .
3 Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway !
4 I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet .
5 Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for .
6 If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave .
7 I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’
8 Somebody had been looking for something .
9 At last she found what she 'd been looking for .
10 This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him .
11 The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died .
12 She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life .
13 For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight .
14 At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on .
15 Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time !
16 If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge .
17 I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government .
18 We had been looking for tasks that were :
19 They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways .
20 By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate .
21 You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet !
22 He 'd been looking for that for ages .
23 And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours .
24 The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for .
25 So he 'd been looking for her .
26 In June , Roland found what he had been looking for .
27 He had been looking for a place to live .
28 The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for .
29 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 .
30 He had been looking for the Face of Death .
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