Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] looking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
2 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
3 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
4 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
5 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
6 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
7 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |