Example sentences of "look for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The cat never looks for me . |
| 2 | Hubert shall see where to-morrow will find me , and I 'll be there before he looks for me . |
| 3 | I have always said that there are thousands of qualified accountants sitting out there in small companies where they are finance directors , credit controllers , company secretaries , advisers to the board , the people to whom the board looks for everything . |
| 4 | She says she needs to gather up , in her post-modern skirt , all the creative , affirmative , intellectual parts of her childhood ; she needs to know how her folk survived , and when she looks for them in England , on TV , at the theatre , in art galleries , in advertising , they 're invisible . |
| 5 | It also looks for what Bensted called ‘ the unknown x-factor ’ which makes the placement work . |
| 6 | Who wants to body bash ? ’ she shouts with her body language , as she looks for her type of guy in the park — a hunky Dobermann or a Rottweiler usually twice her size ! |
| 7 | Abberley looks for something by his bed . ) |
| 8 | Striker Bull looks for his 200th goal . |
| 9 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 10 | One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ? |
| 11 | The first order of meaning is available to participants but the second order of signification is a ‘ hidden ’ level of meaning in that it is not readily available to participants ( who might believe striptease to be erotic ) and needs to be generated by an analyst who knows that it is there and so looks for it . |
| 12 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 13 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 14 | And he looks for it when he comes round you see . |
| 15 | He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front . |
| 16 | No one would ever have looked for him there . |
| 17 | A man had hidden in a window seat ; his enemies had not looked for him there because on top of the seat , someone had laid a sleeping child . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , many women have begun to reject the expectations of men and have looked for their own ‘ role models ’ among themselves . |
| 19 | Rokovssky , of course , knowing nothing about the use of latchcords in Walworth , had n't even looked for one . |
| 20 | Dan became apologetic , taking the guide 's side , saying how much they had looked for her , instead of being protective and angry as he should have been . |
| 21 | For example , the small cell was so amply used in the classical period that one would think a composer of originality would have looked for something different . |
| 22 | We could have looked for something to press it with and pressed it . |
| 23 | I have often looked for it with binoculars , but I have never been able to glimpse it even with × 20 , though my 76-mm refractor brings it out unmistakably , and with my 39-cm reflector I have no trouble in seeing the central star . |
| 24 | Naturally she does n't want to get off before having looked for it properly . |
| 25 | You have n't looked for it ? |
| 26 | Have you looked for it ? |
| 27 | I have n't really looked for it . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten . |
| 29 | ‘ So that means we 're looking for somebody between five and eight ? ’ |
| 30 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |