Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been looking 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 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 9 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 10 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 11 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 19 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 20 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 21 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 22 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 23 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 24 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 27 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 28 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 29 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |