Example sentences of "you [am/are] [adv] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to decide whether you are simply looking for premises and plan to do your own catering , whether you want to hire a professional catering service , or choose a hotel or restaurant that can provide the venue and the food . |
| 2 | " She 's right , " the maid grinned , " you are just looking for a body to practise on . " |
| 3 | You are n't looking for quantities that will fill air balloons but , nonetheless , you need amounts that call on industrial preparation and , as was the case for Paneth and Peters in Germany , the question was where to get it . |
| 4 | You are not looking for a fast drop in weight . |
| 5 | In fieldwork , you are really looking for anything that might confirm the existence of a ley . |
| 6 | As a sentencing judge you are always looking for options erm a variety of options to impose so that each individual sentence that you impose on a defendant is tailored to either the rehabilitation or the punishment ends of sentencing . |
| 7 | ‘ It sounds terrible to say that you are still looking for cigarettes , ’ he said . |
| 8 | You are still looking for where the boy could have been ? ’ |
| 9 | If you 're just looking for matching patterns to co-ordinate with room furnishings , however , there 's an increasingly wide range of totally co-ordinated wallpapers and borders available to go with curtain fabrics , bed linen , and even soft furnishing fabrics which can be bought by the metre . |
| 10 | Nobody 's stolen anything from you , you stole it all yourself and sent it abroad , and now you 're just looking for someone to blame . |
| 11 | But with a list price of around £1,500 , it may be a tad too expensive if you 're just looking for a reliable workhorse. 300dpi printers are good enough for churning out letters , reports and the odd graphic , and do a lot less damage to your wallet . |
| 12 | You 're just looking for a date of today . |
| 13 | You 're also looking for value for money . |
| 14 | ‘ 'Ere you 're not looking for Mrs Scamp , are you ? ’ |
| 15 | You 're not looking for John 's sweets are you ? |
| 16 | it 's like that argument , that , when you look for a marriage partner you 're either looking for somebody to re if you 're a woman , to replicate your father , or to be |
| 17 | For example if you go on an overland trip trekking in erm South America , you 're clearly looking for something totally different than the person who goes on the sort of typical Club Eighteen to Thirty type holiday . |
| 18 | You 're always looking for a four on a par-5 , but at that stage you 'd take it as long as your main opposition has n't gone away . |
| 19 | Well , we 've got our cost reductions as an ongoing process er , so it 's never complete , you 're always looking for ways to , to become more efficient or effective but I do n't anticipate any redundancies er , any further redundancies but obviously if , if , if systems become available which improve our efficiency and effectiveness we , we have to take account of it . |
| 20 | Take people to objections , take them to where you want them to be and bear in mind you 're always looking for an objection |
| 21 | You 're often looking for somewhere , a garage or something off the motorway just for the toilet or a drink |
| 22 | So you 're actually looking for one thing ? |