Example sentences of "[verb] look for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , the disability rights movement has looked for lessons from abroad when drawing up a manifesto for reform . |
| 2 | From what he 'd said , she gathered that he had come looking for Travis at Mrs Hepwood 's behest . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I suggest that you rapidly review your attitude to your wife 's sexual and emotional needs — before she starts looking for love play elsewhere . |
| 5 | This involved looking for female as well as male sources , and avoiding sexist definitions . |
| 6 | They all agreed to this , and they became so occupied looking for ivy on the walls alongside the lane that they did n't see two boys suddenly come racing round the bend just by Miss Miggs 's cottage . |
| 7 | When a manager is faced with no financial resources he has to look for youth or experience to fill out his squad . |
| 8 | If the adventurers specifically state that they want to look for spell ingredients , or if a spellcaster makes an Int test without specifically stating this intention , they can find the following : a fire opal ( Resist Fire ) , a crystal prism ( Destroy Illusions ) , an 8-inch diameter golden hoop ( Vanish , but the hoop is red gold , so the spell will cost 9 MPs rather than 6 ) , a magnifying glass ( Banish Illusion ) , and a polished silver mirror ( Camouflage Illusion ) . |
| 9 | If it 's too painful for her to accept that I want to look for Elaine , then I sha n't . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You still want to look for Elaine . ’ |
| 11 | But to get the full benefit of the new tax regime these married women will need to look for investments that pay interest gross . |
| 12 | Not only are we all primed to look for regularities , we tend to perceive the same regularities . |
| 13 | Scotland 's Under-21 side will contain six First Division players and one from the Second Division in an experimental gathering designed to look for players eligible to take part in the summer 's world invitation event in Toulon . |
| 14 | erm , but I do n't see why she ca n't , whenever she wants to look for files , copy files and sort out other people 's mess |
| 15 | I was too anxious to go looking for birds or small animals which , I fancied , might be caught half-frozen in the undergrowth . |
| 16 | It 's not in her blood , as dyke or Jew , to go looking for converts . |
| 17 | For the moment the Angevin dominions remained quiet and the new King of France was too busy elsewhere to go looking for trouble . |
| 18 | " Have n't you a great cheek to go looking for bread-soda at this hour of the day ? |
| 19 | I can not remember ever feeling hungry ; you did n't have to go looking for food , you just picked it off the trees . |
| 20 | Worthington stressed : ‘ They are not world football powers by any means but they are among the most difficult places to go looking for results . |
| 21 | Chettle looking for Rozario and finds him and it goes towards Collimore just cleared in the nick of time by Whitlow . |
| 22 | You can SCAN , which involves just looking quickly at each page , to pick out anything which you recognise as being relevant to you , and which you can then read in detail ( scanning involves looking for keywords ) . |
| 23 | The method outlined in this section for detecting interactions involves looking for differences in the magnitude of the ds . |
| 24 | ‘ I came looking for Brenda Blond . ’ |
| 25 | When the Government closed two settlement camps near Cirencester in the early sixties , it was here they came looking for jobs . |
| 26 | We had only really talked to Mr Postman on the regular occasions — Dusshera , Diwali , Christmas , New Year — that he came looking for tips , but were flattered by the invitation and out of curiosity decided to take it up . |
| 27 | A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London . |
| 28 | For example , if teachers notice that a child or group of children are tending to look for information in books simply by leafing through them , hoping to find the information by accident , they can , at this stage , point out the use of the contents and index pages , and run through some quick games using these . |
| 29 | And Adimov seemed to look for admiration from Holly when he told his story . |
| 30 | Questions should therefore be framed to look for attitudes of mind rather than simple quantity and frequency of use . |