Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 2 | She had combed the shops of Windsor looking for work , and at last had found some . |
| 3 | Friends clamoured to escape the trauma of walking endlessly up and down Glasgow 's Byres Road with a bottle of Hirondelle looking for a party to gatecrash , and so these Hogmanay house parties swelled in numbers yearly until the queue for the bathroom in the morning rivalled McDonald 's in Red Square . |
| 4 | The city of Balboa looks for all the world like a suburban Texas town — it has green lawns of tough-leaved grass , cyclone fences , large split-level houses , young housewives in sunglasses and hair-curlers driving Camaros on their way to the Safeway , American flags — and American troops . |
| 5 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 6 | For a while the notion gripped him , and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys . |
| 7 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 8 | And frogmen have been dragging the River Severn near Hardwicke looking for clues . |
| 9 | If only they could teach a thing or two to Gloucestershire — they go into Sunday 's match with Derbyshire looking for their first win over a county side this season . |
| 10 | But Hooper has earned a reprieve with Liverpool looking for the solidity and assurance he showed in last year 's UEFA Cup battle with Italian club Genoa . |
| 11 | Today 's opening semi-final is a repeat of the 1988 United Kingdom final , with Corsie looking for revenge over England 's Gary Smith . |
| 12 | On the second day after Eric 's escape , early in the morning a troop of Germans , accompanied by Fascists , arrived in Fontanellato to look for escaped prisoners . |
| 13 | The island-driving strategy in HWIM looked for ‘ narrow ’ points based on acoustic quality . |
| 14 | 1 Three hour family walk in Pembrokeshire looking for animal tracks . |
| 15 | Except keep driving round Wokingham looking for it . |
| 16 | It would be another woman from Naledi looking for work as a maid : dressed in her best in the blaring midday heat : thick cardigan and skirt , heavy shoes . |
| 17 | And I I do n't want to spend all night chasing round Blackpool looking for for a place that serves ordinary food of a decent standard . |
| 18 | Zacks Investment Research in Chicago looked for The Economist at 27 analysts ' recommendations on Philip Morris before April 2nd . |
| 19 | 1 Woodland walks in Rossendale looking for insects and fungi with Lancashire Wildlife Trust . |
| 20 | So John Davies and Simon Green of the University of Leicester have collaborated with the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in Britain to look for fast-moving objects in IRAS signals as they arrive from the laboratory 's receiving station in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | Appetites were whetted among those working on the Tron project and a host of computer animation specialists sprang up in California looking for a piece of the Hollywood action . |
| 22 | Three BIE conference delegates walked into a hotel in Peebles looking for accommodation . |
| 23 | He as out of prison , down from Glasgow looking for Iain . |
| 24 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 25 | He circulated two new rumours a day : cholera was sweeping Paris ; the Kaiser was in Rome looking for a divorce ; the kitchen was putting aphrodisiacs in the gravy ; Lloyd George had been charged with rape ; Switzerland had invaded Germany . |
| 26 | The next day we went to Breckland to look for a bird that some people think of as ‘ a bit of a bustard ’ . |
| 27 | Training to be a teacher and with a wisdom that belied her years , she explained that it was her half-brother who was now living in Mainz and had suggested that Erich ( the Dusseldorfer ) travel down to Tonga to look for a wife . |
| 28 | ‘ I came to Hambury to look for someone . ’ |
| 29 | Her marriage had ended the night when she told Neil Fraser she was going back to Ireland to look for her brother . |
| 30 | I found it depressing that they all had ambitions to go to Manila to look for work when they were older — taking a one-way ticket from the garden of Eden to Sodom and Gomorrah . |