Example sentences of "[am/are] looking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
2 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
3 | He stormed : ‘ I am looking for a dramatic improvement in our defending . |
4 | ‘ We am looking for a very substantial majority . |
5 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee , |
6 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee . |
7 | ‘ Yes , I am looking for a receptionist . |
8 | I 'm a 27 year old male on kidney dialysis and am looking for a computer to use at home with the long-term objective of working in computer programming . |
9 | I am looking for a man . ’ |
10 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
11 | And can I remind the district planning officers I am looking for a positive contribution from you on Tuesday . |
12 | I am looking for a Leeds United match programme … not looking for any particular but I would prefer the most recent or a forthcoming copy . |
13 | A very authoritative voice shouted : " Joe , I must come in because I am looking for a wing commander . |
14 | Now I am looking for a new start and go on from there . ’ |
15 | " I am looking for the Reed Girl . " |
16 | ‘ Now I have got that first win I am looking for the second . ’ |
17 | I am looking at a photograph of an adult dunnock , so small in comparison to its monstrous foster-child that it has to perch on its back in order to feed it . |
18 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
19 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
20 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
21 | I am looking at the most magnificent townscape in London . |
22 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
23 | ‘ Because it looks more proper when I am looking after a patient . ’ |
24 | With some 22,000 students moving around within our city , even if one felt that a nominal sum should be paid — here I am looking after the interests of the hon. Member for City of Durham ( Mr. Steinberg ) whose lovely daughter is now a constituent of mine ; I trust that she will be sensible and know where to put her cross — it is clearly administratively impossible to handle and , given the changes in student support , that small relief will be welcome . |
25 | We are looking across the carriage from the right hand doorway ; the interior surface of the open door is at the right , and in the centre are the front windows . |
26 | A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands . |
27 | They are looking through the directory board in the foyer of the RCA building , reading aloud to each other all the names of firms they find ridiculous ( ‘ How about this ? |
28 | We are looking into a fog . |
29 | Widnes are looking into a plan in which last season 's best player , Richard Eyres , will play in Canberra this summer . |
30 | And they are looking into an incident last month when Daum angrily kicked in an advertising board . |