Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] be looking for " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ? ) |
| 32 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 33 | 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 ! |
| 34 | ‘ You 've been looking for me ? ’ |
| 35 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 36 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 37 | Part-time job that offers the flexibility you 've been looking for . |
| 38 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 39 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 40 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 41 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 42 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
| 43 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 44 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 45 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 46 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 47 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 48 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 49 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 50 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 51 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 54 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 55 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 56 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
| 57 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 58 | He said , ‘ In fact , they 've been looking for him . |
| 59 | They 've been looking for me to take me back . ’ |
| 60 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |