Example sentences of "be look for [adj] " 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 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |
| 5 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 6 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 7 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And I am looking for 100 per cent loyalty . |
| 19 | We have one possibility but the case is still under investigation and I am looking for possible motives . |
| 20 | " I have been serving the Turks , and am looking for better employment . |
| 21 | Erm at the moment okay I 've sold my my last car recently erm I am looking for another . |
| 22 | I am looking for short biographies of female scientists — of any discipline — for use in school . |
| 23 | It estimates 90% of its users are looking for 8 CPUs and 1Gb memory anyway . |
| 24 | Yorkshire managing director Clive Leach , who will be chief executive of the group , said : ‘ We are looking for substantial reductions and we will be ruthless in taking out any area that does not contribute . ’ |
| 25 | Yorkshire managing director Clive Leach , who will head the new group , was more blunt , saying : ‘ We are looking for substantial cost reductions and we will be ruthless in taking out any area that does not contribute . ’ |
| 26 | You are looking for familiar words or phrases . |
| 27 | We are looking for state-backed policies to provide funds for those areas of production where potential exists for a swift expansion of exports . |
| 28 | The geologists are looking for viable extensions of the Wych Farm field which has been successfully exploited in Poole Harbour without too much impact on the environment . |
| 29 | They are considering now short-term leases rather than sell on the market as it is at the present , and they are including the clinic in the buildings for which they are looking for alternative uses . |
| 30 | NEWPORT , who last week suffered the indignity of a record score by the All Blacks in Wales , are looking for two new coaches . |