Example sentences of "looking [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 2 | Suppose that my friend was not looking for me at all . |
| 3 | No one would start looking for me for hours ; not until after dark . |
| 4 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 5 | " We 've been out looking for her since five , " said another man . |
| 6 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 7 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 8 | One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand . |
| 9 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 10 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 11 | Poor Bill ! all day looking for him at home . |
| 12 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 13 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 14 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 15 | Looking for them in BMA House only emphasises the juniors ' ignorance of the enormous amount of work put in on their behalf by all sections of the profession . |
| 16 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 17 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 18 | If they come looking for us with tusk and fang you 'd better be ready with that Winchester peashooter of yours . " |
| 19 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 20 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 21 | ’ Famlio is looking for us in other sectors . |
| 22 | ‘ Yesterday morning , at Shellerton House , Mr Tremayne Vickers and young Mr and Mrs Perkin Vickers all told me they 'd spent three or four hours looking for you on Monday night . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 24 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been beating the bushes looking for you for hours ! ’ |
| 29 | Not looking for you at all . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |