Example sentences of "have been looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Professor Howard has been looking for you , ’ she informed me . |
| 2 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 3 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 4 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 5 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
| 6 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 7 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 8 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 9 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 10 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 11 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 12 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 13 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 14 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 15 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 16 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 17 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 18 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 19 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 21 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 22 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 23 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 24 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 27 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
| 28 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 29 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 30 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |