Example sentences of "he [verb] be looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 2 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 3 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 4 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 5 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 6 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 7 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 8 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 9 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 10 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 11 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 12 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 17 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 18 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He turned sharply from the french window and the view he had been looking at so intently . |
| 21 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 22 | It was a house about two along from the one he had been looking at previously . |
| 23 | ‘ No it 's not ’ , said a Scots Nationalist friend one day — very rude to me — ‘ it 's not cosmopolitan , it 's colonial ’ , and he had been looking at me and thinking ‘ here 's one of those damned Englishmen sponging on the Scots , making a good thing out of them ’ . |
| 24 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 25 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 26 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 27 | He 's been looking at that erm inspiration has n't , do you know I bet it would if he made a cup of tea why was n't |
| 28 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
| 29 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 30 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |