Example sentences of "they 're looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're looking for the womankind who have all gone off with the Romans . |
| 2 | ‘ Have they any idea who they 're looking for ? ’ |
| 3 | And they 're looking for your money-raising ideas to top the record £2 million raised in the south last time … and the zanier the ideas the better , say the organisers . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're looking for you . ’ |
| 5 | She said : ‘ You do n't need a written job specification to know what they 're looking for . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ said the agent , ‘ they 're looking for someone to play Long John Silver in a new production of Treasure Island . ’ |
| 7 | They know what they 're looking for if not who . |
| 8 | They 're looking for Michael . |
| 9 | Phase one of the 2,200-acre project kicks off next year and they 're looking for takers . |
| 10 | Unix System Labs Inc reportedly had a meeting with SunSelect last week : thinking is they 're looking for some help speeding up their PC emulation . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're looking for two vital elements , ’ explains Matthew . |
| 12 | The men they 're looking for are those with skills saleable on the black economy — plumbers , mechanics , electricians , etc . |
| 13 | Well they check a number of things , but Sarah do you know what they 're looking for ? |
| 14 | They have vague ideas of the type of pictures they 're looking for , so they 're trying to get the Designer to make it happen for them — to confirm their thoughts . ’ |
| 15 | Erm wh what they 're looking for in this answer is erm Because it 's the angle in the semicircle angle B is ninety degrees . |
| 16 | Okay that that 's the big thing they 're looking for there . |
| 17 | of thing so I would have thought that it 's the sort they 're looking for . |
| 18 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 19 | The police wo n't know who they 're looking for . |
| 20 | ‘ In order to get that Job , Scott , you have to clarify one thing in your mind — a picture of what they 're looking for as an anchorman . ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand , do n't go looking too battered : they are n't looking for Walter Huston , they 're looking for a younger , well-scrubbed , cheerfully confident Robert Mitchum . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think they 're looking for a battered glamour boy , ’ Scott said . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're looking for a first-class professional journalist . ’ |
| 24 | They 're looking for some purpose for it all and they ca n't find it . ’ |
| 25 | The men who 'll come in know what they 're looking for . |
| 26 | They 're looking for the body now . " |
| 27 | And while they 're looking for that direction , they are vulnerable . |
| 28 | They 're looking for Maurice 's murderers . |
| 29 | One company , TGS Marketing in Omaha , Nebraska , says criminals with longer sentences tend to make more devoted telemarketers — ‘ they 're looking for something stable to hang on to in their lives ’ — and it says it is not against hiring convicted murderers . |
| 30 | They 're looking for a man and a woman , our sizes and our ages . |