Example sentences of "you were looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 2 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 3 | After all , you were looking for a language — Marcus , what is it ? ’ |
| 4 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 5 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 6 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 7 | IF you were looking for a local Pillar of Society , you did not need to seek further than Brian Courtenay . |
| 8 | ‘ If you were looking for a real boost to the industry then these first 10 days should have been much better , ’ said a City analyst . |
| 9 | That 's where I was earlier when you were looking for me . ’ |
| 10 | " Did you get what you were looking for ? " |
| 11 | But I , I did n't know whether that was something that you were looking for , something more local . |
| 12 | Were you aware that no purpose for reading had been given , no specific task that indicated what information you were looking for ? |
| 13 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 14 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's what you were looking for , and more . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ So , did you find what you were looking for , guv' ? ’ asked Dexter as the lift jerked into motion and hummed downwards . |
| 17 | And is it the sort of place you were looking for ? |
| 18 | You could take the plug out and examine it , not knowing what you were looking for . |
| 19 | ‘ If I did n't know just how much you like your job I might actually think you were looking for an escape from it . ’ |
| 20 | You were looking for me . |
| 21 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 22 | Well , er , if you did , then if you were looking for something , you could n't find where it was , you know , you 'd have to delve in , and you take ages to find whatever you 're looking for . |
| 23 | I thought this latest project was supposed to be the breakthrough you were looking for ! ’ |
| 24 | The very house where the woman you were looking for lived ? |
| 25 | ‘ You were looking for us ? ’ he demanded , his tone not encouraging Ralf to waste any more time in pleasantries . |
| 26 | ‘ You were looking for the creature , ’ the Doctor realized . |
| 27 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 28 | It was a new envelope and address label , so he must have a typewriter in there too , but unless you were looking for it , you would hardly have spotted the swap . |
| 29 | ‘ Is she the black girl you were looking for ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She 's the one you were looking for , right ? ’ |