Example sentences of "[was/were] look for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , no , we just like actually applied , like Saxone were , they were looking for girls then , Saxone , B M K , and this was the , the , one that |
| 2 | On all three occasions , peace had created unemployment among soldiers who were looking for adventure and pay . |
| 3 | He believed the authorities had decided what had happened , and were looking for things to fit . |
| 4 | and it was money prizes but they took , they were looking for things to take marks off cos all the other schools doing it were state schools |
| 5 | One day I had one of the prototype JS1s ; it was an ash body and that did n't work out too well when we were looking for woods . |
| 6 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 7 | IF EVER any miserable bastards were looking for evidence in the tedious ‘ American Bands Are Better Than Their Limp Bit Counterparts ’ argument , then the imbalance between Yanks Velvet and Glaswegian wranglers Perspex would ( unfortunately ) send the US-ophiles sprinting around a victory lap at Wem-ber-lee Stadium . |
| 8 | The explanation that they were looking for bones and relics of ancient races puzzled the poet . |
| 9 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 10 | Five were looking for work . |
| 11 | 34 per cent of SERC funded students were looking for work at the end of their courses ; |
| 12 | As Table 4.6 shows , 32 per cent of male SERC students were looking for work at the end of their courses : 47 per cent of the women were in this position . |
| 13 | Overall , 32 per cent were looking for work . |
| 14 | High proportions of both specialist and conversion students were looking for work . |
| 15 | 19 per cent were looking for work ; |
| 16 | Many secondees had been a considerable time in their pre-secondment posts and were looking for variety . |
| 17 | Our Betty were looking for biscuits and thought when they come the other day but I did n't buy any . |
| 18 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 19 | April/May they were in , taking rock samples out and at that time we did n't even think they were looking for gold … |
| 20 | ‘ Bill was being treated at South Cleveland Hospital and he saw notices that they were looking for donations for the holistic centre in the new hospital building . |
| 21 | Nick , of nearby Radstock , said his family — wife Melanie and daughters Abigail , 12 , Beth , 10 and Charlotte , nine — were looking for feathers when they found the shoes . |
| 22 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 23 | Those men were looking for information about a book . |
| 24 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 25 | Chickens were looking for food . |
| 26 | A neighbor summoned the owner from Dorset and told her it was a scandal that her house should be vacant when young people were looking for accommodation , so she let the house to us . |
| 27 | The criteria for inclusion are complicated , but basically the doctors were looking for men in the top 10 per cent of overall risk . |
| 28 | They were looking for Elaine Webb — that must be where I read the name . |
| 29 | at the end of the course 47 per cent of women students were looking for employment , compared to 32 per cent of the men ; |
| 30 | Nineteen per cent were looking for employment . |