Example sentences of "they have been looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ In fact , they 've been looking for him . |
| 2 | They 've been looking for me to take me back . ’ |
| 3 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 4 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 5 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 6 | 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 . |