Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ I 've been looking for you , Tommy . ’ |
| 34 | " I 've been thinking , it might be just the kind of Political party I 've been looking for . |
| 35 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 36 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 37 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 38 | He said , ‘ I 've been looking for you , Charlie . ’ |
| 39 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ I 've been looking for you all over the house . ’ |
| 41 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've been looking for you everywhere . |
| 43 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've been looking for you , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 45 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 46 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ You 've been looking for me ? ’ |
| 48 | He said , ‘ In fact , they 've been looking for him . |
| 49 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 50 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 51 | For example own ( I am my own master ) or ( the ) very ( That 's the very thing I 've been looking for ! ) . |
| 52 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 53 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 54 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 55 | He came over and sat close beside her on the bed , ‘ I 've been looking for you everywhere , Robyn . ’ |
| 56 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 57 | ‘ I 've been looking for you two . |
| 58 | And I kept staring at you and thinking , My God , she 's everything I 've been looking for . |
| 59 | They 've been looking for me to take me back . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |