Examples of 'had been looking' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been looking"

had been looking - This phrase implies that someone was engaged in searching or seeking for something or someone in the past, but the action or intention is no longer ongoing

How to use "had been looking" in a sentence

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had been looking
Cal had been looking for it for years.
It almost looked like he had been looking at jewelry.
Connie had been looking forward to that evening.
What their enemies had been looking for.
He had been looking forward to a free exchange of views.
The whole town had been looking for us.
I had been looking through the old articles.
Clearly someone had been looking after them.
We had been looking for a solution to have them.
The girl he had been looking for.
I had been looking forward to seeing the castle.
It was the evidence archaeologists had been looking for.
He had been looking for you for so long.
Woodbury found it where nobody had been looking.
The girl had been looking for someone.

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This was the hunter they had been looking for.
I had been looking for someone or something to blame.
He said everybody had been looking for us.
She had been looking frail for months.
The teenager in me had been looking forward to.
They had been looking up the role of embassies.
Tom found the key he had been looking for.
Police had been looking for another man.
It was obvious the assailants had been looking for something.
I had been looking forward to reading this story.
Your mother had been looking for it.
Had been looking for work for several weeks.
My grandmother had been looking after it for me.
She was just the kind of girl he had been looking for.
Only that he had been looking for charleston.
Jack dropped the picture she had been looking at.
It was as if they had been looking forward to exposing me as a thief.
This was the treasure she had been looking for.
He had been looking up how to talk with her.
I heard that you had been looking for a flat.
I had been looking for ways to help.
So my parents had been looking for me.
I had been looking at the boggle board.
There was a part of me that had been looking out for it.
I had been looking for such a thread.
He and his friend eric had been looking for jobs.
I had been looking for a lot of answers.
Manufacturers for long had been looking for a common platform.
I had been looking at his wife too.
Aranda told investigators he had been looking for someone to kill.
I had been looking forward to this assignment.
Chad was glad because he had been looking forward to it.
I had been looking for this literature.
He argues that people had been looking for dignity.
Nash had been looking for me for two days.

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