Example sentences of "have [been] looking [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
2 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
3 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
4 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
5 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
6 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
7 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
8 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
9 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
10 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
11 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
14 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
15 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
18 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
19 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
20 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
21 | 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 . ’ |
22 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
28 | He 's been looking at that erm inspiration has n't , do you know I bet it would if he made a cup of tea why was n't |
29 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |