Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [be] looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this chapter we have been looking at the details of the division of labour to which Ella was referring . |
| 4 | Part-time job that offers the flexibility you 've been looking for . |
| 5 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 6 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 7 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 8 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 9 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 10 | [ 5 ] How do the various pictures of God you have been looking at , and also those which you have yourself , compare with the lists in Tables 5.1 and 5.2 which most of the great world religions would agree on ? |
| 11 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 12 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 13 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 14 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 15 | This week we 've been looking at what VAT on fuel and books would mean . |
| 16 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 20 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 21 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
| 22 | For example own ( I am my own master ) or ( the ) very ( That 's the very thing I 've been looking for ! ) . |
| 23 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 24 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 25 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 26 | The nurse who had been looking after Julie escorted her to theatre and stayed with her until she had been introduced to the theatre nurse . |
| 27 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 28 | They are the couple who have been looking after the twins , and it was they who first contacted my mother earlier this morning . |
| 29 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 30 | Therefore the angle we have been looking at can be called PMD or DMP . |