Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] looking for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for a good and intelligent woman to love — ’ |
| 2 | Slater says : ‘ I was looking for a new challenge and I am confident that this club will win honours . ’ |
| 3 | I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year 's import quota . |
| 4 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 5 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 6 | At £12,260 the Aura TD is not particularly cheap but it would certainly be near the top of my shopping list if I was looking for a medium-sized diesel hatchback . |
| 7 | But in 1940 , nobody was looking for a new type of cooker . |
| 8 | These were not necessarily the shy or reserved ones , who were quite likely to be snapped up by ‘ parents ’ who were looking for a quiet life . |
| 9 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 10 | ‘ If you were looking for a real boost to the industry then these first 10 days should have been much better , ’ said a City analyst . |
| 11 | IF you were looking for a local Pillar of Society , you did not need to seek further than Brian Courtenay . |
| 12 | She had announced that she would stay in Paris until October , but by October she was looking for a new place to rent , now deeply involved with Modi and unable to leave . |
| 13 | She grew up associating ‘ love ’ with an emotional roller-coaster , and although she was looking for a long-term partner , Deborah quickly became bored and dissatisfied in a stable relationship . |
| 14 | She seemed most impressed , and said that I should meet her boyfriend who was looking for a bass player , and so I joined his jazz-rock band back in 1973 and we did some touring in Britain . |
| 15 | We were looking for a good flavour and meaty texture . |
| 16 | As with the sliced bread , we were looking for a good , brown appearance , a firm crust , a distinctive aroma and taste with some nuttiness and a firm but springy texture . |
| 17 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 18 | We were looking for a big house in Southampton . |
| 19 | We were looking for a precise way to express what we mean when we refer to something as complicated . |
| 20 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 21 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 22 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 23 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 24 | Judges said they were looking for a pleasing colour , a sharp flavour and a good fruity smell . |
| 25 | They originally thought they were looking for a medieval leper hospital , but then they uncovered a skeleton almost two thousand years old . |
| 26 | It was looking for a new programme and trying to consolidate its confused followers . |
| 27 | His company , a family business , was recently sold against his wishes and the British Steel Challenge was announced at a time when he was looking for a complete change of direction . |
| 28 | One down against Jan Timman , with three left to play , he was looking for a solid advantage with the white pieces . |
| 29 | Siemens AG is disputing a politically-sensitive article carried in The Wall Street Journal Europe on February 16 , which claims that , for the first time , a top Siemens manager , Heinrich von Pierer , said he was looking for a strategic partner for ailing Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG ( CI No 2,117 ) : Pierer allegedly stated that he was not interested in a ‘ one-sided partnership ’ , rather in one that involved ‘ real co-operation ’ ; according to Computerwoche , Siemens denied any claim that it was seeking shelter for Siemens Nixdorf under the umbrella of Japanese or US competitors , ‘ like the other three European computer firms ’ ; the Journal 's London office says the paper is sticking by its story . |
| 30 | Siemens AG is disputing a politically-sensitive article carried in The Wall Street Journal Europe on February 16 , which claims that , for the first time , a top Siemens manager , Heinrich von Pierer , said he was looking for a strategic partner for ailing Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG : Pierer allegedly stated that he was not interested in a ‘ one-sided partnership ’ , rather in one that involved ‘ real co-operation ’ ; according to Computerwoche , Siemens denied any claim that it was seeking shelter for Siemens Nixdorf under the umbrella of Japanese or US competitors , ‘ like the other three European computer firms ’ ; the Journal 's London office says the paper is sticking by its story . |