Example sentences of "[verb] be looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 32 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 33 | ‘ The sergeant has been looking after us very beautifully though . |
| 34 | The reason the peseta has not blown before now may be because the Bank of Spain has been looking after its currency in a novel way . |
| 35 | Joe , who was an outstanding goalkeeper in the Irish League and had a spell of management with Ards , has been looking after Ireland 's senior badminton players since the 1978 European championships in Preston and over the years he has had an excellent working relationship with the players , motivating them and looking after their fitness . |
| 36 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 37 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 38 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 39 | GEORGE Blackett , who has been looking after the safety of council workers and buildings in Middlesbrough since 1974 , is retiring through ill health . |
| 40 | George Blackett , who has been looking after the safety of council workers and buildings in Middlesbrough since 1974 , is retiring through ill health . |
| 41 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 42 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 43 | For three and a half years the Beeson Ward at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has been looking after elderly people — those who need specialist care after major surgery . |
| 44 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 45 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 46 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 47 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 48 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 49 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 52 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 55 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 56 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 57 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 58 | ‘ 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 . |
| 59 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 60 | So he 'd been looking for her . |