Example sentences of "[noun] he [be] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking about the past , helping to build a cupboard , playing in the village band or photographing the bootmaker and the carpenter , Mr Spender seems contented and within the Tuscany he was looking for when he was , as he says , tired of the ‘ thin blue light of London ’ . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 4 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 5 | It was some time before Jean-Claude found the place he was looking for . |
| 6 | She may just have vital information that will give Bob the lead he 's looking for . ’ |
| 7 | Edward 's trouble was that the tell-tales he was looking for , the subtle marks of treachery , were the main — and open — subject of the conversation . |
| 8 | That day he came into Frank Green 's shop he was looking for me , and his seeing me with you nearly blew the whole thing . |
| 9 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 10 | In this particular respect Morse ( suggesting the likelihood of the Botley Road area ) had got things quite wrong , for it was at the Hertz ‘ Rent-a-Car ’ offices at the top of the Woodstock Road where Dixon had finally spotted the name he was looking for with all the excitement of a young angler just hooking a heavyweight pike . |
| 11 | The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from . |
| 12 | ‘ This could be the very opening he is looking for . |
| 13 | It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for . |
| 14 | He found the paper he was looking for in his briefcase . |
| 15 | It is hardly surprising that he can not find the people he is looking for when even the largest organisations have so few senior women . |
| 16 | This was the type of man he was looking for and , by his own account , not infrequently found . |
| 17 | Branson found just the man he was looking for in James Kingsley , Professor of English Studies at Nottingham University . |
| 18 | The man he was looking for , a Greek , was sitting at a table outside a cafe , deep in conversation with three Arabs . |
| 19 | Philip Sessarago , who 's in his thirties , left Hereford late last year telling friends he was looking for security work in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | He gambled mean and if he loaned money he was looking for interest . |
| 21 | Thomson with the corner he 's looking for Whitlow but it was headed by Rozario Thomson can try again . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought it likely this might be the young fellow he was looking for . |
| 23 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 24 | IN the midst of a defeat from the world champions , Andy Roxburgh may have found the vindication he was looking for in an exercise that was thought to be without relevance for Scotland . |
| 25 | Ben flicked through the pages until he came to the diagram he was looking for . |
| 26 | A few yards farther on he found the house he was looking for . |
| 27 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 28 | I got the impression he was looking for something to hit . |