Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] have [be] looking " in BNC.
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1 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
2 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
3 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
4 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
5 | Part-time job that offers the flexibility you 've been looking for . |
6 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
7 | The writers and compilers of the stories we have been looking at in this chapter knew that . |
8 | And so , le let's just conclude our our thinking and some of the things we 've been looking at , |
9 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
10 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The powerful midfielder , Mauro Silva , was the playmaker they had been looking to build the team around . |
13 | However , like many of the theories we have been looking at , it leads to oversimplification . |
14 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
15 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
16 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
17 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
18 | Most large businesses have little in common with the examples we have been looking at . |
19 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
20 | They are the couple who have been looking after the twins , and it was they who first contacted my mother earlier this morning . |
21 | They 're the ones I 've been looking . |
22 | Therefore the angle we have been looking at can be called PMD or DMP . |
23 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
24 | The nurse who had been looking after Julie escorted her to theatre and stayed with her until she had been introduced to the theatre nurse . |
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 turned sharply from the french window and the view he had been looking at so intently . |