Example sentences of "had been look [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 5 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 6 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 7 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 8 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |