Example sentences of "[verb] around for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 2 | ‘ Leaseholders wo n't hang around for 16 years in a pub , because leases can be sold on . |
| 3 | He wandered around for fifteen minutes examining the piping , whistling quietly to himself , stopping occasionally to put his ear to a joint , and then pulled a hammer out of his tool-bag and tapped smartly on one particular valve . |
| 4 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 5 | But he was advised to start looking around for other work . |
| 6 | Please could you confirm this is all OK , as if it is n't I shall be looking around for other people as my financial situation gets monthly more worrying ! |
| 7 | We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that . |
| 8 | So why should we still be looking around for suitable composts ? |
| 9 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 10 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 11 | Throughout the entire 50 minutes of grilling on low heat , Judd Lander sits nervously , looking around for more people to ask questions . |
| 12 | I can promise you , however , that if you walk around for three weeks with a chest pain , fearing a heart attack at the age of 43 , and you are told you have a hiatus hernia you feel a great relief . |
| 13 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 14 | Shop around for good fish ; active and robust , with well-developed fins and good colour . |
| 15 | Shop around for best rates |
| 16 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 17 | Archbishop Fisher and Archbishop Garbett of York started to look around for scholarly clergymen and hovered over various names , ail of whom taught then or had taught in universities . |
| 18 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's what I hang around for all day , ’ said the poet , ‘ when your mother is doing something useful . ’ |
| 20 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
| 21 | Once you have thoroughly reorganized your existing storage you can look around for new surfaces to conquer . |
| 22 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
| 23 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 24 | Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days . |
| 25 | ‘ Look around for one moment . |
| 26 | They look around for other explanations and ulterior motives . |
| 27 | We can do exactly the same : look around for good ambush spots as you run , places which give you cover so that you can jump out and completely surprise your attacker as he rushes past . |
| 28 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 29 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 30 | We look around for white holes and can find none . |