Example sentences of "[been] look for [det] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been looking for that for ages .
2 I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics .
3 I 've been looking for that all week !
4 During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus .
5 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 .
6 ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’
7 And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’
8 We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation .
9 Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option .
10 The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS .
11 For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight .
12 I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government .
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