Example sentences of "what [pron] were look 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 | " Did you get what you were looking for ? " |
| 3 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's what you were looking for , and more . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So , did you find what you were looking for , guv' ? ’ asked Dexter as the lift jerked into motion and hummed downwards . |
| 6 | You could take the plug out and examine it , not knowing what you were looking for . |
| 7 | Well I suppose it is basically but no flute that 's what we were looking for . |
| 8 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 9 | So what we were looking for was something more er erm |
| 10 | Anybody get what we were looking for in the , yes you should ? |
| 11 | Well obviously the delivery name and address is important and the consignments , so you did n't get that wrong but there was , what we were looking for as well a full written declaration of the nature of contents of any consignment containing dangerous infested , contaminated |
| 12 | Number five , if the clients wish to switch testing units in any fund into units of any other fund , it 's a well written question is n't it ? the switch will be made from A , was what we were looking for , bid to bid in both funds , bid to bid , and that generally applies on all our stuff , so it 's quite worthwhile knowing . |
| 13 | I just wanted to come back on er David Potter 's assertion that we were looking for a a higher allocation under I five and I I thought I 'd specifically covered that point by saying that that was n't what we were looking for because that would n't address the sort of development we 're talking about here . |
| 14 | But I think the ingenuity of chemists and scientists and physicists and astronomers is such that , yes , we could do it — if we knew what we were looking for and had the right ideas . |
| 15 | We knew what we were looking for and we knew if we looked long enough and hard enough we would find it , but there were times when we thought perhaps it is n't out there . |
| 16 | There were very few firm commitments , the language is very much that of exploring , attempting , trying , hoping , when what we were looking for was a clear legislative framework . |
| 17 | They even searched between the sheets and under the mattresses , and gave no answer when she asked what they were looking for . |
| 18 | We did n't know what they were looking for in them . |
| 19 | We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for . |
| 20 | ‘ They said he was just what they were looking for , ’ Beverley said yesterday at home in Alwoodley , Leeds . |
| 21 | It was not long before Fiver found what they were looking for . |
| 22 | People who came to the Turk 's Head really had to know what they were looking for . |
| 23 | Foucard said : ‘ They were very thorough , your friends , but did they find what they were looking for ? ’ |
| 24 | These users were asked whether they had used the catalogue before , whether they found what they were looking for and whether they had any particular problems or would like to make any suggestions for improving the catalogue . |
| 25 | They did n't know what they were looking for , any more than we did . |
| 26 | ‘ the exercise assumed that academics would know what they were looking for ’ . |
| 27 | They knew what they were looking for . |
| 28 | We had no idea what they were looking for . |
| 29 | We were not sure what they were looking for but it was almost certainly for these 10 or 12 instruments that were now gaping holes in the dashboard of the abandoned aeroplane down on the airfield . |
| 30 | Balance was what they were looking for . |