Example sentences of "looking [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking through her work you ca n't help but be impressed by the quality and her attention to detail — and I did just wonder if I was in the presence of someone who is going to be hailed the greatest canine painter of her era . |
| 2 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 3 | At one o'clock , she ran round everywhere trying to find him , while Sam ran round looking for her . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself , Mrs Wilson , ’ he said when the maid had gone , ‘ … a little about my family and Elsie 's place in it and how I come to be looking for her after such a long time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 6 | If Dennis came looking for her , she might hear him in time , or she might not . |
| 7 | Is anyone looking for her ? |
| 8 | Perhaps it would n't be such a bad idea to be slightly more circumspect about looking for her . |
| 9 | So that Simon would n't come looking for her . ’ |
| 10 | He always came looking for her . |
| 11 | Looking for her . |
| 12 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 13 | I was wandering around looking for her and the plane exploded behind me . |
| 14 | He had gone looking for her because his breakfast failed to appear . |
| 15 | When this happens , the male flies around looking for her , calling frantically . |
| 16 | -I can send you a plainclothes man if necessary , somebody young who can pretend to be looking for her . ’ |
| 17 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 18 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's out looking for her , ’ Rachel replied , 'but he does n't know Times Square . ’ |
| 20 | She does n't stay here , but the workers stay in overnight — they often work fifty , sixty , seventy hours a week — just in case her husband comes looking for her . |
| 21 | ‘ She never knew ’ , said Gran , ‘ that Jake 'd leave him to come looking for her , and ne'er see him grown . |
| 22 | While they were looking for her , they 'd turn the town upside down . |
| 23 | ‘ If the law knew Connie was missing , they 'd start looking for her . |
| 24 | Why do n't you ask the name of the governess , and why everybody is looking for her ? ’ |
| 25 | It did n't seem that he was looking for her , since he immediately went up again . |
| 26 | " We 've been out looking for her since five , " said another man . |
| 27 | She and all her friends used to run the streets till all hours , and she knew that her friends would come looking for her . |
| 28 | Should he go looking for her ? |
| 29 | Death had really gone looking for her . |
| 30 | While I was doing this , the girl 's father , who was looking for her , reached us . |