Example sentences of "[verb] be look 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 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
15 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
18 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
19 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
20 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
21 | ‘ 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 . |
22 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
23 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
24 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | All you have to do is look for your own number er if you if you have hopefully you 've kept a record of the assignments where you 've earned bonus and you can claim it as soon as that number is published . |
28 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
29 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
30 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |