Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] be looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 2 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 3 | They say they are looking for ‘ a more just society ’ . |
| 4 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 5 | Their initial abuse would give way to laughter when they understood we were looking for a prahu which would carry us eastwards . |
| 6 | Many people underestimate these travellers ; they think they are looking for an easy life . |
| 7 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |