Example sentences of "[been] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Professor Howard has been looking for you , ’ she informed me . |
| 2 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 5 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 6 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 7 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 10 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 11 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 12 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 13 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 14 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 15 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking for you everywhere . |
| 20 | I 've been looking for you everywhere . |
| 21 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been looking for you everywhere , ’ he said breathlessly . |
| 23 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 26 | How long have you been looking for work ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ? ) |
| 30 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |