Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] be looking [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes .
2 After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day .
3 But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care .
4 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 .
5 Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans .
6 At last she found what she 'd been looking for .
7 In June , Roland found what he had been looking for .
8 The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for .
9 The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for .
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