Example sentences of "we have been looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 6 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
| 7 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 8 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 9 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 10 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 11 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 12 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 14 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 15 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 16 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 19 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 20 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
| 22 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |