Example sentences of "[pron] be looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 2 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 3 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 4 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 5 | I am looking at a photograph of an adult dunnock , so small in comparison to its monstrous foster-child that it has to perch on its back in order to feed it . |
| 6 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 7 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
| 8 | This is because in saying what something looks like to me I am not saying something about something other than the thing I am looking at , its look . |
| 9 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 10 | I return to work on the spot with insights into what I am looking at and a clearer sense of intention . |
| 11 | ‘ The two precise problems I am looking at today are what financial means should be explored , and what partnership , with other European operators or if necessary an industrial company ? ’ |
| 12 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
| 13 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 14 | But while I am looking at it my eyes constantly wander from one flower to the next , pausing at some , ignoring others , picking out the details of their shapes and colours . |
| 15 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
| 16 | I am looking at the most magnificent townscape in London . |
| 17 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 18 | I am looking at two lots of 35 in the long waveband and one lot of 32 in the medium waveband. 35 and 32 what ? |
| 19 | Yes , the softness I am looking at somehow irks me . |
| 20 | As this is the speech in which we see Cassius 's motives for killing Caesar , the other one I am looking at is Brutus 's soliloquy at the beginning of Act II scene I , giving his reasons for joining the conspiracy . |
| 21 | The theme I am looking at in this study is that of the illicit passions of married women and their escape from their places in society . |
| 22 | Almost as soon as he was nominated , Mr Mazowiecki said ‘ I am looking for my Ludwig Erhard ’ . |
| 23 | I am looking for photographs , from 1926 to the present day , of ladies or family groups in period dress together with cars , if possible Jaguar cars . |
| 24 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 25 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But , actually , I am looking for someone younger . ’ |
| 27 | I am looking for short biographies of female scientists — of any discipline — for use in school . |
| 28 | I believe you are exactly what I am looking for . |
| 29 | He stormed : ‘ I am looking for a dramatic improvement in our defending . |
| 30 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee , |