Example sentences of "look for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 5 | And he looks for it when he comes round you see . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Naturally she does n't want to get off before having looked for it properly . |
| 9 | You have n't looked for it ? |
| 10 | Have you looked for it ? |
| 11 | I have n't really looked for it . |
| 12 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This generates atmosphere and publicity if you are looking for it . |
| 15 | We are looking for it to have a reasonable rally this summer and we are positive about the dollar so we expect to make money out of currency as well . ’ |
| 16 | Even now the police might be looking for it , might even have found it , might be fumbling over the wet bundle , opening it out , fingering the name-tape … |
| 17 | The missing 90 per cent is where the left-hand brain thinkers would not dream of looking for it — it lies in our capacity to create pictures , to visualize . |
| 18 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 19 | We could still be looking for it when they blow us out of the water . ’ |
| 20 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 21 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | ‘ Fortunately they lost a ball and were looking for it when they spotted the baby wrapped in a towel , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Where there 's muck , there 's brass , as the saying goes — and there was plenty of brass around during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England for those with the skills and the enterprise to go looking for it . |
| 24 | Some people stumble across the Kingdom without looking for it , like discovering a hidden treasure while turning over the soil in the field ( Matt. |
| 25 | As a result , he consistently neglected the search for sponsorship and , when in desperation he got around to looking for it , it was too late . |
| 26 | This is probably due in part to the fact that so many people have gone looking for it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 28 | It may have been a recurrent nova , and although it is probably unlikely that it will ever come within binocular range , if it reappears at all , there is no harm in looking for it . |
| 29 | If people start some trouble or something like that then I 'll be in there — but I do n't go round looking for it or anything like that . |
| 30 | Sometimes you can see the results of this decay on the corporation landscape — scaffolding canopies thrown around the base of tower blocks to catch falling concrete , the cracked and corroded corners which drop off like snow , but unless you are looking for it you do n't notice it . |