Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 2 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 3 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 4 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 5 | Instead , there were rustlings , faint and unintelligible mutterings suggesting that she was looking for something , more footsteps going downstairs , a sharp sound like the slamming of a door and then complete silence . |
| 6 | It revealed in September that it was looking for either an outright buyer or a substantial injection of capital for a minority stake in order to expand the publication . |
| 7 | Working as a pageboy in a club in St James 's in the 1930s , he mentioned to a member that he was looking for a better-paid job . |
| 8 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 9 | He wished to know not simply that he was looking for something , but what it was and what it looked like . |
| 10 | Hershman says his movie is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard 's Breathless , and that he was looking for the new Jean-Paul Belmondo to play the lead . |
| 11 | It did n't seem that he was looking for her , since he immediately went up again . |
| 12 | And er he he was having a conference in , course with dropping out of the Labour Party , the Labour Party finished with him and did n't bother and anyw he he someone I do n't know who it was , it was n't him himself but someone told me that he was looking for somebody to organize this conference in , so I said , Well I I 'll do it . |
| 13 | The chief superintendent looked from one sheet to another and then back again , as if there were certain connections that he was looking for and was unable to find . |
| 14 | The kind of place that he was looking for was the second home , the petit-bourgeois country retreat which is usually sparsely and cheaply furnished and rarely occupied . |
| 15 | He found the house that he was looking for and went into a long , low room . |
| 16 | He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job . |
| 17 | Guido explained what he 'd told Agnese earlier , that he was looking for Jeff and Silvia . |
| 18 | Have you found this chair that he was looking for in that ? |