Example sentences of "[adv] looking for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merely looking for a person is not an assault : Arobieke [ 1988 ] Crim LR 314 ( CA ) . |
| 2 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm only looking for a taxi . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 5 | Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal . |
| 6 | Financially troubled Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its PA-RISC-based fault tolerant machines back on the tracks . |
| 7 | Financially troubled Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its Precision Architecture RISC-based fault-tolerant machines back on the tracks : Hewlett has hitherto seemed doubtful about further involvement . |
| 8 | However , at the time that Penrose produced his theorem , I was a research student desperately looking for a problem with which to complete my Ph.D . |
| 9 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 10 | It was given to delay the police operation to find the bomb and officers were half a mile away looking for the bomb at the Stock Exchange . ’ |
| 11 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 12 | Without thinking , I said , ‘ No thanks , I 'm just looking for a man . ’ |
| 13 | You 're just looking for a date of today . |
| 14 | Yeah I was just looking for a memory jogger here , I just could n't remember what it was |
| 15 | I was just looking for a reference |
| 16 | ‘ But then right at that time Mick Fleetwood came into the studio , just looking for a studio to use , and happened to hear a song from the Buckingham Nicks album , which was just being used to showcase the room . |
| 17 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 18 | people are just looking for a diversion so erm |
| 19 | " She 's right , " the maid grinned , " you are just looking for a body to practise on . " |
| 20 | Just looking for a solution to the problem that 's all ! |
| 21 | You 're not just looking for a brother . |
| 22 | No , it 's okay er , just carry on cos I 'm just looking for a piece of paper to write it on . |
| 23 | You , you just looking for the excuse |
| 24 | On the other hand the newer full-time farmers , with large loans to repay , as well as many of the part-time farmers , were initially just looking for the farm to pay its way . |
| 25 | The club say they are already looking for a replacement . |
| 26 | In this context , I would argue that while the unleashing of widespread revolutionary activity in Latin America in the 1960s must obviously be attributed to the impact of the 1959 Cuban revolution , this event was essentially a catalyst , which supplied a model and a source of inspiration to a radicalised generation who were already looking for an alternative to the Soviet theory of ‘ revolution in stages ’ . |
| 27 | You know Matilda is always looking for a reason to punish you . ’ |
| 28 | Take people to objections , take them to where you want them to be and bear in mind you 're always looking for an objection |
| 29 | ‘ But not always looking for the artist , ’ she said . |
| 30 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |