Example sentences of "he be looking [prep] " 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 | Well , oh is n't he , I can see when she looking at him was looking at him , that 's what . |
| 3 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 4 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 5 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 6 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 7 | He were looking at that bus . |
| 8 | His gaze wandered round the room as though he were looking for someone . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | no well he knew what he were looking for , something worth when you think |
| 11 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 12 | He is looking into the possibility of grant aid and members will be informed when firm progress has been made . |
| 13 | ‘ Your father is a worried man and he is looking to you to make a good marriage , that way at least your own future will be secure . ’ |
| 14 | You could ask PH to introspect into the contents of his phenomenological awareness when he is looking at faces for as long as you liked , but there would be no insight that any recognition is occurring . |
| 15 | Mr Clinton might say in June that he is renewing MFN until 1994 ; that he is looking at the application of other American laws to areas like weapons proliferation and trade abuses ; and that he is starting some ( as yet murky ) process to ensure that the Chinese are discharging their obligations under human-rights treaties . |
| 16 | Tibet 's cries are unlikely in themselves to influence the president one way or another ; he is looking at the broad picture of conditions throughout China . |
| 17 | At present he is looking at renewing ITN 's contract with Channel 4 , linking into breakfast TV , negotiating for the new Channel 5 franchise and possibly supplying news programmes for cable and satellite stations abroad . |
| 18 | he has problems with the e-marker , and needs , especially , to hear many of the words he misspells pronounced clearly while he is looking at them , and to have pointed out to him the parts of the word that correspond to the various sounds . |
| 19 | In looking at people he is looking at profit potential and the attitudes and skills relating to that . |
| 20 | This means that a sailor who is lost at sea can tell which lighthouse he is looking at by simply counting the . |
| 21 | He is looking at the flowers , but he keeps turning towards the house . |
| 22 | He is looking at a bewitched forest of crystal trees and jewelled flowers , rooted in black soil , breathing black air . |
| 23 | But these photographs are misleading to the amateur who forgets that he is looking at a ‘ frozen ’ action captured part of a swing . |
| 24 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 25 | He is looking at services offered by the council and his drawings include the mobile bus which takes books to isolated farmhouses . |
| 26 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 29 | He is looking for a partner to retain the pub as a viable business . |
| 30 | Understandably , he is looking for a place where he can not be reached , A Retreat where he can enjoy an unearned or undeserved equilibrium . |