Example sentences of "[verb] to look for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | If one wants to look for the origins of conflict in modern America , one could do worse than line up the eighteenth-century Puritans against the Enlightenment men : say , Jonathan Edwards ( 1703–1758 ) , Samuel Davies ( 1723–1761 ) and Timothy Dwight ( 1752–1817 ) versus Benjamin Franklin ( 1706–1790 ) , Thomas Jefferson ( 1743–1826 ) , Thomas Paine ( 1737–1809 ) and James Madison ( 1751–1836 ) . |
2 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
3 | However , before the electron microscope was available , in fact in 1937 , Andrade and Tsien decided to look for the cracks by the method of decoration , using of course an optical microscope . |
4 | Victoria went to look for the schedules of the complex from the main office . |
5 | Observers sent to look for the men came under heavy fire , seriously injuring a French officer . |