Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] look for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dennis came looking for her , she might hear him in time , or she might not . |
| 2 | For another thing , I told a friend of mine at Corps to shuffle his documents if the frogs started looking for us . |
| 3 | A bell was ringing and all the animals started looking for something . |
| 4 | Rain did not think this was enough to suggest the brothers went to look for her and said so . |
| 5 | When Miss Temple came to look for me , she found us sitting quietly together . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But if trouble came looking for me I was n't going to be hard to find . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Can someone who went say if the midfield started looking for him … ie played it through the defence occasionally for him to run onto ? |
| 10 | ‘ All that stuff about community meant you could leave the kids with your mum if you had something to do , and you would n't grass on Charlie if the police came looking for him , and you could borrow ten bob to keep you going to the end of the week . |
| 11 | If you failed to work your beat and the sergeant went looking for you and could n't find you , you 'd be reported and land before the chief constable . |
| 12 | So a man named Kress ‘ phoned Connors with some yarn , and Connors went looking for me . |
| 13 | When midnight came and I still was n't home , Naylor came looking for me . ’ |
| 14 | One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand . |
| 15 | And when Mother came to look for them at eight o'clock , they were asleep in the sun . |
| 16 | I hid among the rocks and Hywel came looking for me . |
| 17 | ‘ My mother went to look for it later but it had gone . ’ |