Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil can I ask you have n't have got on my eyes looking for it , but I ca n't see any reference at all in your report to local authority engineering craftsmen . |
| 2 | I sat in the back with Rayleen ( could n't you have guessed ? ) and she made me put my right hand in her lap while she ran her fingertips over most of the rest of my body looking for other injuries . |
| 3 | But with everyone listening intently , there followed what seemed like hours of scrabbling around with my paper looking for page two . |
| 4 | I was huddling over my pan looking for gold , ’ said Horne . |
| 5 | They have left their homes looking for an education . |
| 6 | But she did n't know where it was either and soon the whole family was up on their feet looking for the source of the noise . |
| 7 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 8 | The door closed after Harriet , and Sally rifled through her wardrobe looking for a dress of mauve-sprigged white seersucker , slightly yellowed now , and quite out of place amongst the designer gowns . |
| 9 | The next time they came Allen was already hidden up in a beech-tree above where they stood and Marian was far off wandering among her swine looking for flowers . |
| 10 | ‘ Wo n't even look at 'er new battleaxe , ’ grumbled Ginger as they went on their way looking for money . |
| 11 | We do not suggest that discourse analysts should spend their time looking for potential alternative meanings in what speakers say in a conversation , but we do suggest that the analyst should not simply assume that there is a single , static ‘ topic of conversation ’ in any conversational fragment . |
| 12 | And in any case , if he recovered he 'd spend his life looking for Vecchi , if that party had muscled in on the black . |
| 13 | Einstein spent the later years of his life looking for such a theory . |
| 14 | He spent his time looking for a Jewish homeland that was not Palestine . |
| 15 | While the driver runs his hands along our limbs looking for suspicious objects , Sergeant Kellard stands aside . |
| 16 | ‘ What was your husband looking for ? ’ |
| 17 | One of the men said : ‘ Vanessa , is n't your policeman looking for the man who killed Rain 's boss ? ’ |
| 18 | But I can tell you you 're wasting your efforts looking for Martin Bormann in South America . |
| 19 | Either you can sort through your collection looking for all the smallest items , or you can cheat and use parts of larger pieces of pressed flowers or foliage . |
| 20 | And I missed that in the seventies and eighties , and my wife said you know you 're mad , towards the late eighties she told me off , she said you 're mad , you 'll spend your life looking for something that you 've already got , for god 's sake just concentrate on what you r are , you 're an actor , do that , perform . |