Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [be] looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 2 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 3 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 4 | Then he spoke to Mother , but did n't look at her ; when he replied to her question he was looking at O , and O was looking at him . |
| 5 | It was some time before Jean-Claude found the place he was looking for . |
| 6 | She may just have vital information that will give Bob the lead he 's looking for . ’ |
| 7 | That day he came into Frank Green 's shop he was looking for me , and his seeing me with you nearly blew the whole thing . |
| 8 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 9 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 10 | In this particular respect Morse ( suggesting the likelihood of the Botley Road area ) had got things quite wrong , for it was at the Hertz ‘ Rent-a-Car ’ offices at the top of the Woodstock Road where Dixon had finally spotted the name he was looking for with all the excitement of a young angler just hooking a heavyweight pike . |
| 11 | The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from . |
| 12 | ‘ This could be the very opening he is looking for . |
| 13 | It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for . |
| 14 | He found the paper he was looking for in his briefcase . |
| 15 | They did n't tally with the cool , distant woman he was looking at now . |
| 16 | This means that a sailor who is lost at sea can tell which lighthouse he is looking at by simply counting the . |
| 17 | This was the type of man he was looking for and , by his own account , not infrequently found . |
| 18 | Branson found just the man he was looking for in James Kingsley , Professor of English Studies at Nottingham University . |
| 19 | The man he was looking for , a Greek , was sitting at a table outside a cafe , deep in conversation with three Arabs . |
| 20 | He gambled mean and if he loaned money he was looking for interest . |
| 21 | At present he is looking at renewing ITN 's contract with Channel 4 , linking into breakfast TV , negotiating for the new Channel 5 franchise and possibly supplying news programmes for cable and satellite stations abroad . |
| 22 | Thomson with the corner he 's looking for Whitlow but it was headed by Rozario Thomson can try again . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought it likely this might be the young fellow he was looking for . |
| 24 | The way he was looking at her , it was obvious he knew the truth . |
| 25 | The way he was looking at him , Philip knew he was testing him . |
| 26 | Although anything less repentant than the way he was looking at her now , Folly thought , would be hard to imagine . |
| 27 | From the way he was looking at her , you 'd think the damned car park , and the hotel , belonged to him ! |
| 28 | The way he was looking at her — |
| 29 | The way he was looking at her as much as the words and tone struck a personal note , and she regarded him uncertainly , unsure of what he was saying , or asking . |
| 30 | It was the odd way he was looking at her , almost as if he were some kind of predatory animal waiting to pounce . |