Example sentences of "[prep] [be] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , new academic journals are regularly launched , devoted to one or other of the many specialisms into which English is fragmenting , and in their earlier issues , at least , are likely to be looking for contributions . |
| 2 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself , Mrs Wilson , ’ he said when the maid had gone , ‘ … a little about my family and Elsie 's place in it and how I come to be looking for her after such a long time . ’ |
| 4 | Mick still seemed to be looking for an excuse to return home , so I chose not to make an issue of the blunder . |
| 5 | Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together . |
| 6 | Each one must have held memories of her father , but she seemed to be looking for something special . |
| 7 | Male callers however are far more likely to be looking for easy solutions to a debt problem , usually a further loan or re-mortgage which in the long term will often make the problem worse . |
| 8 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 9 | -I can send you a plainclothes man if necessary , somebody young who can pretend to be looking for her . ’ |
| 10 | The doctor claims to be looking for a cure for river blindness but his strange behaviour makes Teresa suspicious . |
| 11 | Fiat is said to be looking for a partner for its car business . |
| 12 | OSF is now believed to be looking for a commercial partner to take over and productise the technology , which is much-needed within the industry . |
| 13 | But the Sunday Times seems to be looking for a figurehead for the post , with real work being done in the back room , by the likes of Harry Ritchie , Walsh 's deputy , who in the view of many in the book business would make an excellent lit ed for the paper . |
| 14 | I know what we ought to be looking for — a high , lonely place with dry soil , where rabbits can see and hear all round and men hardly ever come . |
| 15 | Time to be looking for summer migrants . |
| 16 | So what a el else are we gon na to be looking for ? |
| 17 | We 're not saying , as you well know from my representations , we 're not saying that these sites should be allocated for development now either in total or or in part , unless the Inspector feels that there is a shortage of housing land , that he needs to be looking for additional sites . |
| 18 | So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact . |
| 19 | procedures which are , do n't quite fit you , then I think what we ought to be looking for is a certain amount of common ground between your procedure and our procedure , so there is not something , you 're doing something completely different to the way the rest of us are doing it . |
| 20 | You seem to be looking for a file , and you should be selecting |
| 21 | The shape outside had stopped , and seemed to be looking for something . |
| 22 | Students who had studied IT at a polytechnic were rather less likely to be In employment or to be continuing their studies than their university peers , and more likely to be looking for employment ( Table 4.2 ) . |
| 23 | A voice for moderation and good order — like many others — but his head as bare as the rest when the bricks started to fly , his body as vulnerable to sabre cuts as his father 's , his countenance indistinguishable to those young and possibly nervous soldiers from the real " physical force " brigade they were supposed to be looking for , who had raised everybody 's temperatures by ambushing and stoning a military escort at Salterhebble . |
| 24 | If the Other Side knows enough to be looking for Blagg , it could know enough to destroy or neutralise the information , whatever it may be , in his possession . ’ |
| 25 | This may reflect a difference in emphasis in that parents seemed to be looking for information about their child 's overall character and behaviour ( eg ‘ good at sharing toys ’ ) whereas staff seemed to report specific good behaviour ( eg ‘ She 's done a lovely painting this morning ’ or ‘ He ate his dinner up nicely today ’ ) . |
| 26 | Head : ‘ Had we ought to be looking for courses to send you on ? ’ |
| 27 | On Saturday Maxim had moved back into Wellington Barracks ; he was supposed to be looking for a new flat to go with his London posting . |
| 28 | It seemed to be looking for something . |
| 29 | He seemed to be looking for something . |
| 30 | No one seemed to be looking for it . |