Example sentences of "they [be] look for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All three of them are looking for work in large towns .
2 They are looking for drugs . ’
3 To help their case , they are looking for case histories of people who have been affected because of the lack of access to their files .
4 ‘ They have a good idea who they are after and now they are looking for evidence to back it up . ’
5 Only those who know what they are looking for will stumble upon it and this seclusion exerted a strong appeal on the Ashleys .
6 At the moment they are looking for joiners .
7 They are looking for partners to develop the idea throughout Europe .
8 They are looking for sponsors for kneelers to put in the church at £10 a time .
9 They are looking for clues , I suppose .
10 Having been dormant for a while they are looking for funds to give Britain 's young people the opportunity to realise their full skiing potential .
11 As more breeders being to use cow genetic index as a benchmark of genetic potential , they are looking for animals with pedigrees to make significant advances in their herds .
12 " They are looking for husbands , " Sheikh Ahmed said .
13 If problems arise in everyday life , they may begin by some rational search and analysis , but they are looking for aspects of the situation that reflect prior experience ( that are stereotypical ) and , once they recognize those aspects , they switch to a more holistic and intuitive assessment based on their understanding of those stereotyped elements .
14 If they are looking for salvation , he wrote , they will find it .
15 So they are looking for ways to use their voices rather than their feet to influence management .
16 They 're looking for answers and reasons .
17 beginning to go , when they 're looking for members it was important to get er high involvement in this .
18 and more and more and more people are looking for experience , they 're looking for vocations , they 're looking for er the sort of attributes which , you know , are n't actually overflowing when you 're unemployed in Wolverhampton
19 They 're underpaid , overworked , underappreciated , and they 're looking for material , particularly from people who understand the sort of material that , that works on local radio .
20 they 're looking for words that are n't in there !
21 They 're looking for Michael .
22 Phase one of the 2,200-acre project kicks off next year and they 're looking for takers .
23 They 're looking for Maurice 's murderers .
24 And that is why , th with the government talking about , and they 're talking about authority why should they be looking for money from anywhere , when after all , the youth of today are the pensioners to , of tomorrow , and it 's only our duty to look after them .
25 The explanation that they were looking for bones and relics of ancient races puzzled the poet .
26 If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something .
27 and it was money prizes but they took , they were looking for things to take marks off cos all the other schools doing it were state schools
28 The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work .
29 ‘ Bill was being treated at South Cleveland Hospital and he saw notices that they were looking for donations for the holistic centre in the new hospital building .
30 April/May they were in , taking rock samples out and at that time we did n't even think they were looking for gold
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