Example sentences of "[been] looking for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 4 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 5 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 6 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 7 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 13 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 14 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 16 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
| 17 | Darlington councillor Frank Robson , chairman of the town 's twinning sub-committee , said : ‘ We already have twin towns in Germany and France and have been looking for a twin in Eastern Europe for some time . |
| 18 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 19 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 20 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 21 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 22 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 25 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 26 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 27 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 28 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 29 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 30 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |