Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] looking " in BNC.
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| 31 | " I 've been thinking , it might be just the kind of Political party I 've been looking for . |
| 32 | I 've been looking out for you . " |
| 33 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 34 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 35 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 36 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 37 | Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms . |
| 38 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 39 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 40 | He said , ‘ I 've been looking for you , Charlie . ’ |
| 41 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I 've been looking after my aunt , sir , who 's just died . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Whoever it is , I 've been looking in your books and you have n't got your name in your books . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 45 | I 've been looking after him , have n't I , Martin ? ’ |
| 46 | I 've been looking everywhere for you . |
| 47 | ‘ I 've been looking for you all over the house . ’ |
| 48 | I 've been looking forward to seeing you so much . |
| 49 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 50 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 51 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 52 | I 've been looking very carefully at the door this afternoon . |
| 53 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 54 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 55 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you , ’ Helen snapped . |
| 56 | ‘ I 've been looking for you everywhere . |
| 57 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 58 | ‘ I 've been looking for you , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 59 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 60 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |