Example sentences of "[verb] [be] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 2 | ‘ Professor Howard has been looking for you , ’ she informed me . |
| 3 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 4 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 5 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 6 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 7 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 8 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 9 | Each is eager to present himself as the most qualified man to head off protectionist measures and to restore Japan 's good name , which lately has been looking a little tarnished . |
| 10 | ‘ The sergeant has been looking after us very beautifully though . |
| 11 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 12 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 13 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 14 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 15 | The normally outgoing Garel-Jones has been looking tired lately , say his friends , who believe he genuinely wants to bow out of the spotlight and spend more time with his family . |
| 16 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
| 17 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
| 18 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 19 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 20 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 21 | The reason the peseta has not blown before now may be because the Bank of Spain has been looking after its currency in a novel way . |
| 22 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 23 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 24 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 25 | Watkins says Bill Joy 's Sun Labs team has been looking at micro-kernel technologies under the auspices of Spring , Sun 's blue-sky , rolling research effort . |
| 26 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 27 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 28 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
| 29 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 30 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |