Example sentences of "he [be] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 2 | His gaze wandered round the room as though he were looking for someone . |
| 3 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 4 | no well he knew what he were looking for , something worth when you think |
| 5 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 6 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 7 | He is looking for a partner to retain the pub as a viable business . |
| 8 | Understandably , he is looking for a place where he can not be reached , A Retreat where he can enjoy an unearned or undeserved equilibrium . |
| 9 | Following the completion of the acquisition of Framlington 's private client fund management business in January and the recruitment of five new investment managers in Liverpool , he is looking for increased investment revenues in this year . |
| 10 | ‘ This could be the very opening he is looking for . |
| 11 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 12 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 13 | ‘ He is looking for Mademoiselle Céline de Mont-Mercure . ’ |
| 14 | He is looking for letters from potential puchasers of Loch Lomond , the troubled up-market golf and country club development of which he was appointed administrator in November 1990 . |
| 15 | Mr Gatoff says he is looking for offers in the region of £15m . |
| 16 | This requires a successful I test , with a -20 penalty , for any character who specifically states he is looking for something out of the ordinary . |
| 17 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 18 | The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors . |
| 19 | He is looking for companies worth between $1.5m and $8m , and the preferred fields , as well as library systems , are systems for construction companies , financial institutions , hotels , property management companies and manufacturing and distribution organisations . |
| 20 | He indicates that he is looking for £150m.The defence division had appeared as a ‘ blot on our copy books ’ , he said — pre-tax profits at the business plunged to £1.5m from £13.2m , and turnover slipped to £425m from the £436.5m of a year ago . |
| 21 | ( b ) He must take reasonable steps to explain what he is looking for and the basis of his suspicion ( s.2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 22 | It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for . |
| 23 | He is looking for an easy rapport , but he does not want it to be too easy . |
| 24 | ‘ And he is looking for drugs ? ’ |
| 25 | The social anthropologist can find what he is looking for in either . |
| 26 | He is looking for a contact in each region who he can ring monthly to find out what 's happening in the Community Care field that would be of particular interest to the Voluntary sector e.g. contracts , consultations etc . |
| 27 | He is looking for any ambiguous opportunity to take his gun and do the worst . |
| 28 | Can anyone expect Mr. Kiechle to stand up and explain everything that he is looking for ? |
| 29 | Sooner or later the searcher will fail to find a registration that he is looking for . |
| 30 | Maybe he is looking for a knife he can grab . |