Example sentences of "looking for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are looking for such opportunities , however , beware of allowing visual images to blind you to potential problems . |
| 2 | There is a slowly burgeoning market for this type of entertainment , with many music and arts societies looking for such a programme . |
| 3 | Einstein spent the later years of his life looking for such a theory . |
| 4 | ‘ If there was , it escaped notice , ’ said Owen , ‘ and no one was looking for such signs , well it might pass them by . |
| 5 | I mean let's be honest if we all turned out that 's five and if the rest of the Executive Committee turned out that would virtually take it up to ten we would n't be looking for many more after that |
| 6 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 7 | Now we 're looking for each other . |
| 8 | Are you looking for each particular turn , or are you looking for everything . |
| 9 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 10 | Remember that RUNNING is looking for all kinds of safety tips . |
| 11 | This blocky layer is carried along on top of the moving flow , looking for all the world like rocks on a conveyor belt in a quarry . |
| 12 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 13 | We 're looking for all types of dog — well-known and exotic breeds of dog , crossbreeds , mixtures , dogs that can do tricks … you name it . |
| 14 | The distinctive leaves of Begonia grandis evansiana , looking for all the world like an escaped house plant , but hardy enough to grow outside , are also grown in abundance . |
| 15 | A few days later a 69 Squadron Maryland approached the airfield , looking for all the world like a Ju88 . |
| 16 | And as we are unlikely to see any real harmonisation of accounting procedures , fiscal requirements or business practices throughout the Community in the near future , pan-European accounting systems will be increasingly important to the large number of UK companies looking for all the help they can get . |
| 17 | Bellybutton , a straw hat over his eyes , danced a few ludicrous steps on the deck of the workboat , thus looking for all the world like a simple Bahamian native welcoming the nice white folks from Georgia who now stood blinking in the bright sunlight beside a growing mound of their designer-label luggage . |
| 18 | Either you can sort through your collection looking for all the smallest items , or you can cheat and use parts of larger pieces of pressed flowers or foliage . |
| 19 | In the corner of the pool sat Debbie Harry who leant into my face and — looking for all the world like Benny Hill 's mum — said ‘ Is this the same James Brown who championed The Wonder Stuff and Happy Mondays ? |
| 20 | He sat in the low chair with his head bowed , looking for all the world like a genius deep in contemplation , though in fact he was fast asleep . |
| 21 | Er oh I did have one Polish lad who 's now left who used to go round looking for all the cans and he 'd then collect the ten p's ! |
| 22 | We visited Sanur Beach , where we painted fishermen working on their outrigger boats , extraordinary craft with huge ‘ arms ’ , looking for all the world like giant multi-coloured sea creatures . |
| 23 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 24 | The work was unplaced , but the concept was electrifying — a smooth , lacquered black box with an ominous bulge at one end , looking for all the world as if something inside wanted to escape . |
| 25 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 26 | You can do this directly , if the catalogue has subject divisions , or indirectly by looking for all books with a particular word in the title . |
| 27 | He left the set that day looking for all the world like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the beach bully . |
| 28 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 29 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 30 | Londoners lead the buyers from the south east looking for that cottage with an acre , or the house beside a river or overlooking a rugged coast . |