Example sentences of "[verb] be looking for a " in BNC.
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1 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
6 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
10 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
11 | Must have been looking for a house . |
12 | ‘ Do you remember last year when your cousin Hamed was looking for a bride ? ’ |
13 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
14 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
15 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
16 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
17 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
18 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
19 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
20 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
21 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
24 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
25 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
26 | Darlington councillor Frank Robson , chairman of the town 's twinning sub-committee , said : ‘ We already have twin towns in Germany and France and have been looking for a twin in Eastern Europe for some time . |
27 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
28 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |