Example sentences of "was look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 2 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 3 | He was Looking for me . |
| 4 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 5 | ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said . |
| 6 | When Louis Benjamin was looking for a stopgap for Drury Lane between 42nd Street 's closure and Miss Saigon 's opening , the only production which could fill London 's biggest theatre was Dame Edna 's one-woman show : one Australian housewife outdrew the huge casts of the big-budget musicals . |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ I was looking for something else . ’ |
| 8 | One down against Jan Timman , with three left to play , he was looking for a solid advantage with the white pieces . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the Officers over at H.Q was looking for you earlier on . |
| 10 | So basically she was looking for a job . |
| 11 | It turned out that the stranger worked for ICI and he told Haslam that Britain 's major chemical company was looking for mining engineers . |
| 12 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 13 | At that time , Russell Mills , an artist who was looking for a dwelling that would be large enough also to provide studio space , realised that the building might subdivide suitably to meet , at low cost , the similar needs of fellow artists and designers . |
| 14 | While these arrangements were being formulated , the developer was looking for a suitable building . |
| 15 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 16 | ‘ I was looking for you all over . |
| 17 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 18 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 19 | Vivienne Westwood , current British Designer of the Year , had a very clear idea of what she was looking for : ‘ Something unorthodox that people have n't seen before . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 22 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 23 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 24 | George Underwood : ‘ When you leave school , you have to queue up and see a career 's officer and I remember I was standing right behind David in the queue and asked him what sort of job he was going to say he was looking for . |
| 25 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 26 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ It emerged that David was looking for somewhere to live . |
| 27 | He had crossed the ride and was looking for his dog the other side . |
| 28 | He bet she was looking for the fox . |
| 29 | She was looking for her cigarettes . |
| 30 | Lee was looking for the bits of the fence that were buried in the grass . |