Example sentences of "actually looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easy Rider was the motivation for a lot of things and for those not familiar with the story , it is one of free love and excessive drugs and of American society as perceived by Hopper in 1968 , with some moralistic warnings about drug use and undertones about the consequences of such a lifestyle — but only if you were actually looking for them . |
| 2 | ‘ We were actually looking for something a little more positive , old boy , ’ he protested . |
| 3 | To label anything , whether an idea or a person , is frequently a method of blocking inquiry , of avoiding the difficulty of actually looking for ourselves ; it is a way of shunning mental adventure . |
| 4 | So the first things going through a buyer 's head , or that will influence them , will be the sort of lifestyle they 're actually looking for . |
| 5 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 6 | Christopher Columbus was actually looking for a quicker route to the heart of Indonesia when he stumbled on America . |
| 7 | It 's the viola that we 're actually looking for . |
| 8 | That 's that 's it until I know or I know what I 'm actually looking for in it I can run around chasing me tail all day which |
| 9 | We were going round actually looking for work , not ve very keen but we were , we were looking for it . |
| 10 | What are you actually looking for ? |
| 11 | Right , so we 're actually looking for Jack , is parcels , |
| 12 | but it might not be the colours that we 're actually looking for |
| 13 | So you 're actually looking for one thing ? |
| 14 | What we really want to do is to get him to respond to some of our press releases and to comment from his perspective of what the press is actually looking for . |