Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 2 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
| 3 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 4 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 5 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 7 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 8 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 10 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 11 | The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past . |
| 12 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 13 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 14 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 15 | Must have been looking for a house . |