Example sentences of "look for something " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abberley looks for something by his bed . ) |
| 2 | For example , the small cell was so amply used in the classical period that one would think a composer of originality would have looked for something different . |
| 3 | We could have looked for something to press it with and pressed it . |
| 4 | The reader may be doomed to disappointment in reading through an article with wide contextual terms of reference if looking for something as simple as descriptions of works of art , their interpretation and evaluation . |
| 5 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 6 | ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ I was looking for something else . ’ |
| 8 | Britain is looking for something new from this conference . |
| 9 | We engaged in the game of looking for something which did not exist . |
| 10 | Looking for something between sovereignty and not sovereignty . |
| 11 | We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us . |
| 12 | We were all people that were looking for something to believe in . |
| 13 | ‘ If you 're looking for something really new , like pen-based computers or multi-media , Compaq does n't stand for that , ’ says Stewart Alsop , editor of PC Letter , a trade journal . |
| 14 | Looking for something ? ’ |
| 15 | Elisabeth chose beer soup to start with , pheasant with grapes and red cabbage to follow and , looking for something light and easy to swallow , wine jelly to round off her dinner . |
| 16 | But among the oldies who have given the project their support are Malcolm McLaren and Elvis Costello , which suggests that the ENO is looking for something a little off the beaten operatic track , not to say strange and unusual . |
| 17 | A significant indicator of poverty in any society is the number of people who can be seen poking in rubbish bins looking for something that is still usable , since surviving off society 's rubbish epitomises ultimate poverty . |
| 18 | You are curious , you are looking for something else , because this is the second time that you have invited me to have a drink , you order cheiro as though you were one of us , you are a foreigner and pretend to speak like us , yet you drink little and then you stay silent and wait for me to speak . |
| 19 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
| 20 | Looking for something — goodness knows what — comfort , I would have thought . |
| 21 | An excellent overview of organisational communication research written specifically with reference to the external organisational environment appears in a valuable compendium Handbook of organizational communication — a volume that in this context I am not ashamed to admit that I came across just by chance in a bookshop whilst looking for something completely different ! |
| 22 | In particular , the boys drift into and out of minor delinquencies while hanging around the streets in groups looking for something to do , as the following extract from his study illustrates . |
| 23 | ‘ Grubbing around amongst the undergrowth beside the path , obviously looking for something . ’ |
| 24 | There was nothing more boring than flogging around , looking for something like a bike without lights . |
| 25 | Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else . |
| 26 | Recommended to those looking for something attractive , that 's a little off the beaten track ! |
| 27 | This creates a problem for people who are looking for something that cats dislike , to use as a repellent . |
| 28 | It can be fairly clear when looking for something physical , but in trying to find earth energies there are difficulties in determining what comes from the individual and what from the site . |
| 29 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 30 | ‘ We were actually looking for something a little more positive , old boy , ’ he protested . |