Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] looking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
2 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
3 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
4 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
5 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
6 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
7 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
8 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
9 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
10 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
11 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
12 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
13 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
14 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
15 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
16 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
17 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
18 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
19 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
20 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
21 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
22 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
23 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
24 | He 's been looking at that erm inspiration has n't , do you know I bet it would if he made a cup of tea why was n't |