Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for a [noun] " 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 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 37 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 40 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 43 | Mark said : ‘ It is important to keep in rhythm when you are training for a race . |
| 44 | LORD Mayor Treloar College students and staff are training for a Marathon Day on May 4th designed to raise money for the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Activities Centre at Bursledon . |
| 45 | I am searching for a pattern . |
| 46 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
| 47 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 48 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
| 49 | I am looking for a man . ’ |
| 50 | I 'm a 27 year old male on kidney dialysis and am looking for a computer to use at home with the long-term objective of working in computer programming . |
| 51 | A very authoritative voice shouted : " Joe , I must come in because I am looking for a wing commander . |
| 52 | ‘ Yes , I am looking for a receptionist . |
| 53 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee , |
| 54 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee . |
| 55 | I am looking for a Leeds United match programme … not looking for any particular but I would prefer the most recent or a forthcoming copy . |
| 56 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 57 | The Managing Director of the IMF , Michel Camdessus , had been lobbying for a doubling of quotas and other members had argued in favour of a two-thirds increase . |
| 58 | The wordsmiths who put wooden jokes into his speeches are writing for a man who lacks the essential sense of timing for making them . |
| 59 | CENTRAL Scotland police are searching for a man seen leaving a building which was deliberately set alight on Stirling Road , Dunblane , late last Friday evening . |
| 60 | often , new songwriters are searching for a recording contract as artists . |