Example sentences of "was look for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ When I decided to take the part I was looking for a role that was the opposite of my character Dylan . |
| 32 | The scientist Robert Boyle was looking for a method of preserving corpses so that they could be used for summer as well as winter tutorials . |
| 33 | Yes that 's right , looked like a , a good plan , I was looking for a savings plan and er I suppose it 's one of those er fortunate circumstances , Friends Provident sent some stuff through , it looked good so I took it out . |
| 34 | Vincente Minnelli , a director of the old school and greatly renowned and respected for such classics as The Band Wagon and An American in Paris , was looking for a touch of modernism to attract a young audience to a rather old-fashioned film called On a Clear Day You Can See Forever . |
| 35 | ‘ Patrick McGoohan , who wrote the series , was looking for a car to use and Lotus tried to persuade him to use the Elan , ’ says Graham Nearn , managing director of Caterham Cars , which still makes the Seven today . |
| 36 | I was looking for a book on how people make them . ’ |
| 37 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |
| 38 | Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ? |
| 39 | My wife , Joyce also came close and peered , but in her case I believe she was looking for a miracle . |
| 40 | I was looking for a business venture worthy of my silver , some trade across the Narrow Seas or perhaps commerce with the Baltic . |
| 41 | ‘ I was looking for a business niche and the idea really took off , ’ said Mrs Spence . |
| 42 | It was a brief letter from an address in Chelsea , telling him that the writer had heard he was looking for a sibling , affirming that the writer of the letter was probably that person , and suggesting a meeting . |
| 43 | Gray began singing for Baldwin after her cousin — an avid Chicago house devotee who would occasionally drag Paris out to the city 's hottest clubs — heard Baldwin was looking for a singer and gave him Gray 's number . |
| 44 | Yeah make yourself some money , Kev was looking for a drill , but the trouble is you you do n't get your money off Kev will you ? |
| 45 | Nobody had heard of Rosie O'Dell ; I was looking for a needle in a haystack . ’ |
| 46 | Wycliffe thought that Gifford Tate had found himself a girl wife , one who , however unconsciously , was looking for a daddy or , perhaps , a hero rather than a husband . |
| 47 | And occasionally if I was looking for a magazine to buy , it would get a lot of i good information in it too . |
| 48 | When Louis Benjamin was looking for a stopgap for Drury Lane between 42nd Street 's closure and Miss Saigon 's opening , the only production which could fill London 's biggest theatre was Dame Edna 's one-woman show : one Australian housewife outdrew the huge casts of the big-budget musicals . |
| 49 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 50 | ‘ Do you remember last year when your cousin Hamed was looking for a bride ? ’ |
| 51 | He was looking for a gap in the net which enclosed him and his men . |
| 52 | Also in August I said that A Year In Provence author Peter Mayle was looking for a house outside France . |
| 53 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 54 | The time I was looking for a house , he says it was n't enough to get into Sandy Row . |
| 55 | She would have no trouble in finding a tenant for the cottage ; already Simon Clifford , a neighbour , had approached her on behalf of an acquaintance of his who was looking for a place in the area . |
| 56 | So basically she was looking for a job . |
| 57 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 58 | For I was looking for a job I was newly married in nineteen thirty six make a pound or two . |
| 59 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 60 | Yeah that he just , he asked Gary this morning if he was looking for a job |