Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] looking for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But if someone 's looking for an unusual night spot On Grace there was , after all , not so very much to be done . |
| 2 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 3 | No it was just it was just that he , he , he wound you , he wound up , he said oh someone 's looking for you cos he wanted to get rid of him |
| 4 | Zelda West-Meads of Relate adds , ‘ Here someone is looking for their ideal , but she does n't exist . |
| 5 | 1 You work in an estate agency and someone is looking for a property for £30,000 . |
| 6 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 7 | He told me he had heard I was being watched , and that someone was looking for Magwitch . |
| 8 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 9 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 10 | In every prima facae case there are always anomalies if somebody is looking for them . ’ |
| 11 | But in 1940 , nobody was looking for a new type of cooker . |
| 12 | So if if nobody was looking for it or if they were n't used to the machines , examining the machines , they would n't know it was there . |
| 13 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 14 | Although a two-state success/failure branch for components and systems is often used , this may be inadequate when we have to examine partial successes or failures ; this treatment for the plant might well produce thousands of sequences , so these are usually grouped into a small set of typical sequence states that will be bounding in terms of the consequences one is looking for . |
| 15 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 16 | Behaviour which is hard to explain , if one is looking for moral consistency , makes underlying sense , if one thinks in terms of power . |
| 17 | Therefore , it is said , one is looking for the actual cost of providing that benefit for the employee . |
| 18 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 19 | Strolling rather than walking he reached the point where the footpath to Trebyan left the road ; it was by no means obvious unless one was looking for it : a ditch , a screen of willows , and a stile all but covered with ivy . |
| 20 | ‘ If there was , it escaped notice , ’ said Owen , ‘ and no one was looking for such signs , well it might pass them by . |
| 21 | Why do n't you ask the name of the governess , and why everybody is looking for her ? ’ |
| 22 | I mean and everybody 's looking for that dream amount are n't they . |
| 23 | Sir — If anyone is looking for a good cause to support — perhaps as a competitor in the ADT London Marathon , or in some other activity — please remember the NSPCC . |
| 24 | If anyone is looking for an experienced goal scorer he fits the bill . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think they knew anyone was looking for them . ’ |
| 26 | I mean , I 'm definitely a feminist , but I 'm not a man hater , but I mean I think everyone 's looking for the new term and |
| 27 | ’ Everyone 's looking for y' , Del ’ Frejji said . |
| 28 | Everyone 's looking for him ! |
| 29 | ‘ Everyone was looking for reasons why he left us and no-one appreciated at the time that his health was suffering . |
| 30 | The subject areas ( included in the above list ) where no-one was looking for employment were in physics , computing/physics , computing with non-IT subjects , and in optical fibres . |