Example sentences of "have [verb] looking for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 2 | I can not remember ever feeling hungry ; you did n't have to go looking for food , you just picked it off the trees . |
| 3 | Do you have to keep looking for things ? |
| 4 | Without them , the police would never have started looking for Spicer . ’ |
| 5 | From what he 'd said , she gathered that he had come looking for Travis at Mrs Hepwood 's behest . |
| 6 | Clearly I had arrived between downpours of the searing acid rain , while none of the local wildlife had come looking for snack in my vicinity . |
| 7 | One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools . |