Example sentences of "[pron] [be] looking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 2 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 3 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
| 4 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
| 5 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
| 6 | I am looking at the most magnificent townscape in London . |
| 7 | " I am looking for the Reed Girl . " |
| 8 | ‘ Now I have got that first win I am looking for the second . ’ |
| 9 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
| 10 | With some 22,000 students moving around within our city , even if one felt that a nominal sum should be paid — here I am looking after the interests of the hon. Member for City of Durham ( Mr. Steinberg ) whose lovely daughter is now a constituent of mine ; I trust that she will be sensible and know where to put her cross — it is clearly administratively impossible to handle and , given the changes in student support , that small relief will be welcome . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's all about money , I 'm looking for the heavy readies , not the glory . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm looking for the blacksmith , Joe Gargery , ’ he said , ‘ and his apprentice , Pip . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm looking for the taxi . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm looking for the Crowned Head , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I 'm looking for the magical pleasureboat , to carry us off and lose us in a kingdom out at sea . |
| 16 | ‘ Hang on , I 'm looking for the metal polish . |
| 17 | I opened the door by mistake ; I 'm looking for the bathroom , my clothes … ’ |
| 18 | Er at the same time I 'm looking for the chemistry er the feel for those people , er the quality of those people and whether I could work with them and whether they could work with me . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm looking for the Doctor . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm looking for the German U boats , when er that 's the beginning of the German U boat |
| 21 | I 'm looking for the cloth I ca n't find it . |
| 22 | well I like singing it , what I mean , I think what it is I 'm looking for the old , I 'm not being funny , I 'm looking for the old voice |
| 23 | well I like singing it , what I mean , I think what it is I 'm looking for the old , I 'm not being funny , I 'm looking for the old voice |
| 24 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 25 | I 'm looking at the framed portraits of the stars : Anna Neagle , Liz Taylor , Dirk Bogarde , hand coloured like the photographs that Mr Fuller tints , an elderly artist who lives across the road from my grandparents . |
| 26 | At first , cos I 'm looking at the baby , I do n't see who the lady is . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm looking at the partnership agreement now … trm , trm , trm , here we are — death in partnership — well , it dissolves the partnership , course it does , but what happens to the money ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm looking at the ceiling/With a lonely feeling , ’ murmurs singer Mark at one point , which says a lot , really . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm looking at the fire , ’ said Lydia . |
| 30 | I 'm looking at the helpful assessment provided by Selby in A seven double O four . |