Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Our Political Editor Peter Hayes has been looking at Labour 's week in Brighton . |
| 4 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Creed 's been looking for you . ’ |
| 7 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 8 | The reason the peseta has not blown before now may be because the Bank of Spain has been looking after its currency in a novel way . |
| 9 | Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned . |
| 10 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 11 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 12 | The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy . |
| 13 | As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out , he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him . |
| 14 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 15 | Mary had been looked after by a nanny until the age of seven and had then stayed intermittently with elderly relatives . |
| 16 | They were barely inside the front door when the elderly housekeeper appeared and told Cinzia that Signorina Cook had been looking for her . |
| 17 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 18 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 19 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 20 | Alistair and Wayne show they have appreciated that the addition of one tower to the other will create a new tower that is taller than either of its component towers , whereas Matthew and Claire have been looking at the inverse operation — one brick less and the tower is lower . |
| 21 | Manager Alan Murray had been looking for somebody to replace the unlucky Saville , who broke his arm hours after his Pool debut a fortnight ago in a freak restaurant accident . |
| 22 | Our environment reporter Harriet Ryley has been looking at the changing attitude to what we throw away and how we deal with it . |
| 23 | It er it , we , certainly the expansion of Tadcaster has been looked at quite thoroughly , though not only by the local authorities , but by the private sector , and the , and I think the the agreement has been that it it is not possible at the scale which is required to meet the needs of Greater York . |
| 24 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 25 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 26 | In the last of her special reports on child friendly Scotland , Alison MacDonald 's been looking at how we 're doing on providing the basics like nursery places . |
| 27 | ‘ Professor Howard has been looking for you , ’ she informed me . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 30 | ‘ At the Polish centre they told me that Marek Nowak had been looking into his father 's life . |