Example sentences of "were [adv] looking [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 2 | DETECTIVES were yesterday looking for Animal Rights extremists who planted a firebomb under a huntswoman 's car . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |
| 4 | ‘ You were n't looking for gold , were you ? ’ |
| 5 | She ca n't remember any but there again you were she were n't looking for green . |
| 6 | In talking about USE and CHOICE in Chapter 1 we were implicitly looking at language from the author 's point of view . |