Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved to look for the girl . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't believe it 's such a coincidence , that I 've actually been staying in the house of the person I came to look for ! |
| 3 | So I began to look for a husband . |
| 4 | I began to look for her . |
| 5 | After I had written my letter of acceptance to Bedford I began to look for digs nearer the university : I was determined to show some independence . |
| 6 | They had a right set to while I went to look for my knitting . |
| 7 | ‘ I went to look for a new car and the Lord said to me , ‘ Richie , you buy this car . |
| 8 | I eventually assumed that , by now , someone else must have written the animal version of Manwatching and recently I went to look for it . |
| 9 | At this point I went to look for my master , and told him that Catherine and Heathcliff were quarrelling in the kitchen . |
| 10 | In the morning I went to look for Heathcliff . |
| 11 | Then I went to look for Anne . |
| 12 | He was so frightened that I went to look for the animal . |
| 13 | ‘ When you were missing I went to look for you . |
| 14 | And er I went to look for him once and I could n't f Could n't find him anywhere . |
| 15 | I preferred to look for Suzie by myself . ’ |
| 16 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 17 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to know why you came to look for me . ’ |
| 19 | She turned to look for Douglas 's support , but he had taken his coffee and retreated with the dog . |
| 20 | She began to look for a university job outside Cambridge . |
| 21 | Wearily , she began to look for them all over the theatre . |
| 22 | Then she went to look for Esther to make plans , for at least there would be Esther in these appalling two months of honeymoon ahead . |
| 23 | Then she went to look for Alice who was out of the bathroom and sitting on the edge of their bed , brushing her hair . |
| 24 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 25 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 26 | He said nothing , merely walked away leaving them to push it open and then shut it after them , and on Philippa explaining to his departing back that she wanted to look for her earring and take back the vases and one or two things ‘ out of his way ’ , he said as ungraciously as he could ‘ I suppose so ’ . |
| 27 | So if you wanted to look for example , at hesitations , and try to do an analysis of where he had hesitated and why he hesitated , who hesitates more than others . |
| 28 | So we agreed to look for a new approach " . |
| 29 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 30 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |