Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [be] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bet she was looking for the fox . |
| 2 | Er — I heard you was looking for Ron . |
| 3 | Later , after Mother died , we heard he was looking for a sponsor and planning another solitary voyage . |
| 4 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 5 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 6 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 7 | I knew I was looking for something . |
| 8 | We thought you was looking for us , that 's all . ’ |
| 9 | Their initial abuse would give way to laughter when they understood we were looking for a prahu which would carry us eastwards . |
| 10 | ‘ By the time I went to Devonshire I knew that there was a real hound , and I knew we were looking for a man and a woman . |
| 11 | I felt they were looking for any excuse to start a fight . |
| 12 | They originally thought they were looking for a medieval leper hospital , but then they uncovered a skeleton almost two thousand years old . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think they knew anyone was looking for them . ’ |
| 14 | Although he did n't say so , Lyn knew he was looking for the marks of Peach 's claws . |
| 15 | The Doctor nodded to himself as one piece of the puzzle clicked into place , explaining why everyone thought he was looking for a missing British Consul , obviously this man . |
| 16 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 17 | Then the 62-year-old globetrotter from Bristol revealed he was looking for two more women ! |
| 18 | Then he remembered he was looking for his friend . |
| 19 | Well , he said he was a writer , and I said I was looking for plays to invest in and why did n't he write one about his friend , and a couple of months later he 'd written something pretty splendid , had n't he ? |
| 20 | ‘ You said you were looking for me . ’ |
| 21 | Mind you , I mean , we got no whisky anyway so I said she 's looking for somebody who erm drinks at erm a spot of whisky . |
| 22 | She concentrated on the one with the trousers and said she was looking for George . |
| 23 | Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time . |
| 24 | Well they asked for you , and your name , and I said no you were n't in , and then said we 're looking for Joanne . |
| 25 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 26 | They bought out , this company have bought out a new tile and he said they 're looking for a sort of nice house to have as a sort of a show house and then he thinks he 'll get them for nothing . |
| 27 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 28 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 29 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 30 | ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’ |