Example sentences of "[been] looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oisin had drawn breath to respond to this , when Eogan , who had been looking towards the forest , suddenly said , ‘ What 's that ? ’ |
| 2 | The Premier League , rather than seek one major sponsor , have been looking towards the World Cup/European Championship idea of group backers who could contribute around £25m a year . |
| 3 | Morgan Grenfell seems happy and has not been looking over Mr Massey 's shoulder . |
| 4 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 5 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 6 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking through the cuttings on the inquest again , and she was identified by an aunt who lived in Herefordshire . ’ |
| 8 | Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 9 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 10 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 11 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 12 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 13 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 14 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 15 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 16 | The faint-object camera has also been looking at the remnants of the supernova which excited astronomers in 1987 . |
| 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 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 19 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 20 | The writers and compilers of the stories we have been looking at in this chapter knew that . |
| 21 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 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 | 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 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 25 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been looking at your expense account , Brian , ’ says Vic , turning over a small pile of bills and receipts . |
| 27 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Thus , this survey combined the two methods we have been looking at above . |
| 30 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |