Example sentences of "[pron] to look for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had awful visions of himself walking the streets , demeaning himself to look for work . |
| 2 | The advertisement pages of The Scotsman in the golden Edwardian afternoon carried long columns of vacancies for parlourmaids , cooks and housemaids ( so it is not surprising , though it must have been a source of irritation , that male printers hostile to women entering the trade often urged them to look for work " in service " ) . |
| 3 | Their father , Oliver P. Bernard , the theatre designer who had worked at Covent Garden and the Boston Opera House and who had also designed Art Deco interiors for Lyons restaurants , had died insolvent , thereby terminating his sons ' education and obliging them to look for work . |
| 4 | Without patronage , however , political interests withered in time , for the needs of the voters would drive them to look for aid elsewhere if there did not seem a reasonable probability that their present connections might recover their lost influence in London . |
| 5 | For example , some historians have argued that Methodism and other non-conformist sects were deliberately encouraged by employers in the nineteenth century in order to placate the workers and persuade them to look for salvation in the next world rather than in this . |
| 6 | The papacy 's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world . |
| 7 | In fact , the widespread finding that the word for ‘ mother ’ in unrelated languages often includes the sound ‘ ma ’ might lead us to look for sound symbolism as the underlying common factor . |