Example sentences of "have been look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 2 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 3 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 4 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 5 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 6 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 7 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 8 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 9 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 10 | ‘ He did n't realise that people all over the world have been looking for him . ’ |
| 11 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 12 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 13 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 14 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 15 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 16 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 17 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes this way of working is just what health workers have been looking for , but it has to be acknowledged that such an approach does not fit easily with the conventional mode of western medicine and what we have described as the medical model . |
| 19 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 20 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 21 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 22 | Police have been looking for the killer of seventy year old Jim Eggleton since his battered body was found five weeks ago . |
| 23 | Is this the relief that MS sufferers have been looking for ? |
| 24 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 25 | Darlington councillor Frank Robson , chairman of the town 's twinning sub-committee , said : ‘ We already have twin towns in Germany and France and have been looking for a twin in Eastern Europe for some time . |