Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If current cultivars do not adapt , breeders may need to look for new varieties which cope better with milder winters . |
| 2 | You must stop looking for me … ’ |
| 3 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 4 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 5 | keeps guessing that 's what , I should have looked for . |
| 6 | We have already closed sites which have become yesterday 's plants serving yesterday 's needs and we 'll keep looking for other areas of adjustment . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll go back to my dad 's business until Christmas but then I 'll have to look for another job , hopefully I 'll be able to stay in golf . |
| 8 | So from now on , all you 'll have to look for is a red handle for slotted , green for Phillips , blue for Pozidriv/Supadriv , and yellow for Torx . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll have to look for hours to find our spaceship . ’ |
| 10 | Thorfinn said , ‘ If the landings take place on the north side , they 'll have to look for more boats upriver and get themselves across till we can come . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’ |
| 12 | I 'll have to look for another job , but there 's nothing suitable in this area . |
| 13 | Well , that 's what I 'll have to look for now . |
| 14 | Instead of looking for one thing to satisfy our needs we might try looking for combinations . |
| 15 | No plan for the upper floor is given , and the ground floor plan is very simple , with none of those carefully considered amenities that Dorothea might have looked for in Loudon 's Encyclopaedia . |
| 16 | I 'll go to look for where they were born and bred . |
| 17 | You reckon he might come looking for bother ? ’ |
| 18 | Any they 'll come looking for us . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think , in fact , they might start looking for us . |
| 20 | Capital could flow about freely to seek investment , and labour could migrate to look for work . |
| 21 | Cassie could have looked for hours but a slight sound from the garden jolted her back to an awareness of her present danger . |
| 22 | We could have looked for something to press it with and pressed it . |
| 23 | The lads would say they were out of beer money , so I 'd go looking for a booth . |
| 24 | ‘ If the law knew Connie was missing , they 'd start looking for her . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the VHD project is now on ice , and the company may have to look for another video-disc format . |
| 26 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 27 | Mr Bryan Goddard , theatre director , said staff would keep looking for ways to improve the bar service , including encouraging people to order beforehand . |
| 28 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 29 | ‘ If the museum had n't offered an opportunity , they would have looked for another . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |