Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change repetitions by looking for new words with the same meaning in Roget 's Thesaurus . |
| 2 | You are looking for familiar words or phrases . |
| 3 | Much of what is typed in is discarded , because the computer is really looking for key words which refer to files kept in its disc store and what should be done to them . |
| 4 | It is almost like a little grunt and occurs in sentences but not necessarily when one word is spoken on its own — another good reason why you should always speechread the sentence as a unit , not looking for individual words . |
| 5 | One can reconstruct the original language by looking for common words and then make a guess about where the language came from . |
| 6 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 7 | Believing me to be an intellectual , Beth had spent the previous night searching for suitable words to read before the laying-on of hands . |
| 8 | She hesitated , searching for damaging words . |