Example sentences of "[pron] be look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 2 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 3 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
| 4 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
| 5 | " I am looking for the Reed Girl . " |
| 6 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
| 7 | With some 22,000 students moving around within our city , even if one felt that a nominal sum should be paid — here I am looking after the interests of the hon. Member for City of Durham ( Mr. Steinberg ) whose lovely daughter is now a constituent of mine ; I trust that she will be sensible and know where to put her cross — it is clearly administratively impossible to handle and , given the changes in student support , that small relief will be welcome . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm looking for the taxi . ’ |
| 9 | I opened the door by mistake ; I 'm looking for the bathroom , my clothes … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Hang on , I 'm looking for the metal polish . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm looking for the blacksmith , Joe Gargery , ’ he said , ‘ and his apprentice , Pip . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm looking for the cloth I ca n't find it . |
| 13 | Er at the same time I 'm looking for the chemistry er the feel for those people , er the quality of those people and whether I could work with them and whether they could work with me . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm looking for the Doctor . ’ |
| 15 | Er in so much as I mean I must admit with these increases , I appreciate your need to get the extra profits and I 'm looking at the ones where I think we can push them to get a bit more . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm looking at the partnership agreement now … trm , trm , trm , here we are — death in partnership — well , it dissolves the partnership , course it does , but what happens to the money ? |
| 17 | At first , cos I 'm looking at the baby , I do n't see who the lady is . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm looking at the fire , ’ said Lydia . |
| 19 | Now just to clarify in my mind about , here I 'm looking at the summary of your submission , you actually refer to the fact that sixty three hectares are required to meet the needs of the city , whereas I take it you say this morning that you 're happy with the forty six , er but in reality you can only get thirty three ac thirty three hectares within the city . |
| 20 | Sweet shop , sweet shop , sweet , I never know what to buy when I 'm looking at the chocolate compartment . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry , I was looking for the loo , ’ I said as casually as I could . |
| 22 | ‘ I was looking for the bathroom , and I surprised him — it was an accident . |
| 23 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 24 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 25 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 26 | I was looking for the Mr because I remembered I said I would be here in this session and I 'd forgotten . |
| 27 | ‘ For weeks I was looking into the face of every stranger thinking ‘ you could be the one that killed my Brian ’ , ’ said Joan . |
| 28 | I was looking at the scalectrix . |
| 29 | I was I was looking at the syllabus last night and I was working out how much we 've got to do yet and where we are an and I really do feel confident that no matter where you are in your course work situation , that if w if we planned the thing right and we sort it out between now and the summer , tha that we could well get a good few Grade A's in here and obviously work it well . |
| 30 | Yeah I was looking at the petrol driven ones . |