Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] looking [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 2 | If all that does n't stop the person , they are obviously looking for trouble of some sort and you must quickly decide whether to lash out first or run for safety . |
| 3 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 4 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 5 | We 're still looking for balance and the injuries we 've had have n't helped . ’ |
| 6 | And they 're also looking for progress too , they want to increase |
| 7 | You 're also looking for value for money . |
| 8 | Presumably if we 're now looking at commitment in the wider area of search which would draw in many additional parishes , I think in the Harrogate case er something like seven to eight additional parishes , er if we look at commitments there would we also need to revise the housing need figure as well ? |
| 9 | However , when this becomes a driver we are often looking for attention when we are doing something . |
| 10 | In this chapter we have , through our time travelling , been outside of our own world for some time now , so perhaps we are now looking at modernity with the eyes of a stranger coming home . |
| 11 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 12 | Oh I 'm just looking at bottom of my bag there , there was , there was bills from Gateway , that was from last year . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I 'm still looking for work . |
| 14 | Newly formed cooperatives are particularly looking for forage , livestock handling , grain drilling and grain drying equipment , ’ he says . |
| 15 | The police are increasingly looking to technology — and to information technology in particular — to help them combat increasing crime . |
| 16 | Buyers are currently looking at packaging of inner soles which would need to be changed if we were to stock them . |
| 17 | With it , the company hopes to woo the developers that are currently looking at Unix , while at the same time keeping its existing MVS base happy since it enables the mainframe to run both MVS and Posix-compliant applications , and IBM already talking to a range of un-named Unix application developers about adapting their products . |
| 18 | Transend are continually looking for shareware that spans a wide spectrum . |