Example sentences of "[vb base] been looking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 5 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
| 10 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 11 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 15 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 16 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |
| 17 | Dr Briggs and Richard Fortey ( of London 's Natural History Museum ) have been looking at new ways of classifying the various arthropods in the Burgess . |
| 18 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 19 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 20 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 21 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 24 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
| 25 | Although the virus has now disappeared , RSPCA staff have been looking after orphaned pups , seals damaged by fishing nets and victims of gales , as well as treating a variety of birds . |