Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be looking [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 2 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 3 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 4 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 5 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 6 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 7 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 8 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 9 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 10 | So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites . |
| 11 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |