Example sentences of "have [been] looking [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 2 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 3 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 4 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 5 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 7 | When he looked at the picture of Tace he might have been looking into a mirror . |
| 8 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 9 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 10 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 11 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 12 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 13 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
| 14 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 15 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 16 | Mrs Hiscocks , a divorcee , had been looking after a 650-acre wildlife sanctuary at Abuko for Mr Brewer , while he was in the UK for medical treatment . |
| 17 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 18 | Oh I du n no , I 've been looking at a few , not that probably , not in the top ten |
| 19 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 20 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 21 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 22 | Darlington councillor Frank Robson , chairman of the town 's twinning sub-committee , said : ‘ We already have twin towns in Germany and France and have been looking for a twin in Eastern Europe for some time . |
| 23 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |