Example sentences of "[pron] look for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I looking for him cos they er , I mean he is a old farmer . |
| 2 | ‘ Am I looking for anything in particular ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My parents are quite agreeable to my looking for my roots , Mrs Maybury . |
| 4 | ‘ If we do n't return them , ’ I say , ‘ Mama 's gon na notice her boys ai n't back , and she 's gon na send someone looking for them . ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Bennett of West Yorkshire made a similar complaint about Lovejoy : the character ‘ warned an acquaintance that someone looking for him ‘ wants his balls on a fork' . ’ |
| 6 | There 's someone looking for him . ’ |
| 7 | I look for what each dog is , its own character , its own personality apart from its overall breed ’ . |
| 8 | I look for her everywhere — but he does n't . |
| 9 | I look for one starting with a ‘ B ’ cos I know what that looks like . |
| 10 | I was going to say , I like to set somebody task as they 're down for , and I look for it , and nine times out of ten you 'll find out if they can achieve that very shortly , very fast . |
| 11 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 12 | I looked for her where she was lodged with her foster-parents . ’ |
| 13 | It came to pass that when the Lord had ascended from the water , the whole fountain of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him , and said to him , ‘ My Son , in all the prophets I looked for thee , that thou mightest come and I might rest in thee ; for thou art my rest , thou art my Son , my first-born , who art king for evermore . ’ |
| 14 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |
| 15 | When I finished , I looked for him but he had disappeared into the kitchen . |
| 16 | I looked for him but did not find him . |
| 17 | I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him . |
| 18 | ‘ I looked for him everywhere , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ but I could never find him . |
| 19 | When choosing the frame for this design I looked for something that would show off the dark red colours of the flowers and also be fairly plain , so as to balance the rather busy design . |
| 20 | Sally and I looked for something local and intense , a compromise between a traverse of the Meije in the wake of great names , or a pass crossing in the wake of a continental alpine course . |
| 21 | I looked for something different . |
| 22 | ‘ I looked for you , but I could n't find you . |
| 23 | ‘ I looked for you earlier when it was still light . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 25 | " I looked for you earlier today . |
| 26 | I looked for it and never found it . |
| 27 | I looked for it everywhere but I could not find it . |
| 28 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 29 | I looked for our ship and , to my surprise , it was still there and still in one piece . |
| 30 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |