Example sentences of "[verb] [be] looking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 2 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 3 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 4 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 5 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 6 | For three and a half years the Beeson Ward at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has been looking after elderly people — those who need specialist care after major surgery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 12 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 13 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 14 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |
| 15 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 16 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 17 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 18 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 19 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 20 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 23 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 24 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 25 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 26 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 27 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 28 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 29 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
| 30 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |