Example sentences of "[vb past] look for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involved looking for female as well as male sources , and avoiding sexist definitions . |
| 2 | ‘ I came looking for Brenda Blond . ’ |
| 3 | When the Government closed two settlement camps near Cirencester in the early sixties , it was here they came looking for jobs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And Adimov seemed to look for admiration from Holly when he told his story . |
| 7 | She turned to look for Douglas 's support , but he had taken his coffee and retreated with the dog . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 10 | The next day we began to look for work . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Inevitably Americans began to look for ways to prevent a war in Europe from spreading to the American homeland . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She went over to her bookshelves , and began to look for books that Jamie might find useful in writing his article . |
| 16 | While the others started looking for land , he slid back onto his gun . |
| 17 | I think they gave up on me and started looking for Finlayson instead . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 20 | And then they started looking for words that might be relevant so that 's quite good . |
| 21 | I 'm not bragging , but by the time I really started to look for Carol Flaxman I knew it would be a matter of hours rather than days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was getting dark when Simon went looking for Gazzer . |
| 24 | We went looking for like-minds and found aliens . |
| 25 | Some as young as eleven and twelve , these ‘ migrant labourers ’ went looking for work and did not always find it , turning to other less than legal ways of earning their bread . |
| 26 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 27 | Some went wide-eyed , some went in search of music , the world of On the Road , some went looking for Ken Kesey 's Merry Pranksters , others for the new politics . |
| 28 | I never went looking for trouble — it normally came to me . ’ |
| 29 | And when the whistle went seconds after Sinton tucked in his spot-kick , Morris went looking for trouble . |
| 30 | Fitzormonde went looking for Mowbray and found his corpse . ’ |