Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [be] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part-time job that offers the flexibility you 've been looking for . |
| 2 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 5 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 6 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 7 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For example own ( I am my own master ) or ( the ) very ( That 's the very thing I 've been looking for ! ) . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " I 've been thinking , it might be just the kind of Political party I 've been looking for . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |