Example sentences of "look round for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 've enough of my own without looking round for a few more . ’ |
| 2 | Clare jumped up wildly , looking round for a way to escape . |
| 3 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 4 | I think that 's , that 's pretty consistent , probably with how bands are formed , actually , is n't it , its friends of friends , and somebody knows somebody else , and somebody 's looking round for a drummer , just happens that somebody mentions it to somebody else . |
| 5 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |
| 6 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 7 | I 'm going to stay there for a bit while I look round for a place . ’ |
| 8 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 9 | Like many footballers at the twilight of their careers , Rough looked round for a suitable business interest and eventually opened his own shop in Musselburgh . |
| 10 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 11 | Both guards broke clear , looked round for a moment and then leapt up the bank into the wood . |
| 12 | Ruth looked round for a clock , but there was no clock in the room . |
| 13 | She looked round for a plain grave . |
| 14 | He looked round for a weapon to fight with , but Fagin already had a heavy metal pot in his hand . |
| 15 | He looked round for a stick or prop which he could use to dislodge Yussuf . |
| 16 | There was no table set and she looked round for a sideboard that must house such things as cutlery . |
| 17 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |