Example sentences of "[be] looking [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 2 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | First you are looking for some mystery man called Svend , then it is your sister , but all the time you are taking an inventory of my apartment . ’ |
| 5 | They are looking at some wire wool that has rusted . |
| 6 | Unix System Labs Inc reportedly had a meeting with SunSelect last week : thinking is they 're looking for some help speeding up their PC emulation . |
| 7 | They 're looking for some purpose for it all and they ca n't find it . ’ |
| 8 | So they 're looking for some money to finance a research fellow at the Hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 're looking for some kind of … counselling , ’ says Riva , ‘ I 'll ask my father if he knows of anyone who … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 're looking at some form of support from below , know what ah mean ? |
| 11 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 12 | From now on he would be looking for some sort of pattern . |
| 13 | ‘ But probably the chances are that I will be looking for some sort of change , ’ he added . |
| 14 | EP : Last time I saw you we felt that we should be looking at some kind of school with weekly boarding . |
| 15 | I personally would prefer us to be looking at some way of allowing greater scope for debate at section conferences , and where necessary to have decisions on general issues deferred to Congress for ratification or withdrawal . |
| 16 | But I imagine they will be looking at some sort of insurance claim . ’ |
| 17 | I think er it 's got to be er linked certainly to the rate of inflation , er and in some way linked to the way that the fire service er has their pay formula , and they 're actually linked to 25% of the top 25% of schooled manual workers , er we 'd be looking at some sort of deal like that , or if it was n't er tied up with percentage rates I think we need , definitely need an independent pay review body for the ambulance service . |
| 18 | So I think for next week I 'd like to be looking in some detail , there are two sources on this one is , is and the other is , tho those two are crucial in terms of understanding or , and and that those are crucial in terms of understanding erm why this policy document . |
| 19 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 20 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 21 | Answer guide : This question is looking for some discussion around the realization and prudence principles . |
| 22 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 23 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |