Example sentences of "[vb past] look for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 2 | This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s . |
| 3 | The letter which has just been found refers to something like called a police operational order authorising the raid , saying that had disappeared by the time the police complaints authority started looking for it . |
| 4 | I went looking for it with my cousin Peter . " |
| 5 | So I went looking for it and could n't find it ! |
| 6 | ‘ My mother went to look for it later but it had gone . ’ |
| 7 | I eventually assumed that , by now , someone else must have written the animal version of Manwatching and recently I went to look for it . |
| 8 | He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it . |
| 9 | He went to look for it , remembering that he had used it a couple of times since October , trying to take the plugs out of the estate car . |