Example sentences of "[vb past] look for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Government closed two settlement camps near Cirencester in the early sixties , it was here they came looking for jobs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 5 | After I had written my letter of acceptance to Bedford I began to look for digs nearer the university : I was determined to show some independence . |
| 6 | De Gaulle 's interest in this reform picked up noticeably in the spring of 1962 , as he began to look for ways of heading off parliamentary moves to reduce his role . |
| 7 | Inevitably Americans began to look for ways to prevent a war in Europe from spreading to the American homeland . |
| 8 | Within the Labour Party the Socialist League was finding that its attempts to remould policy were resented and rejected and it began to look for allies outside the Party . |
| 9 | She went over to her bookshelves , and began to look for books that Jamie might find useful in writing his article . |
| 10 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 11 | And then they started looking for words that might be relevant so that 's quite good . |
| 12 | After researching the project for a year , Paul Vincent decided to look for premises with a shop front that would make the centre easily accessible . |
| 13 | We went looking for like-minds and found aliens . |
| 14 | Nutty went to look for Nails . |
| 15 | That 's it , no they went to look for diamonds in the cave when they went to work did n't they ? |
| 16 | A bank of phones , paperwork cascading over a long table , two computers programmed to look for patterns , similarities , oddities . |
| 17 | On the way we had to look for letters and treasure which was leaves , flowers and things . |
| 18 | Chalmers 's form has been quite a contrast to last season , when he was often indecisive in his play and tended to look for gaps which rarely existed before passing or kicking . |