Example sentences of "was look for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |
| 2 | He was looking for space in which to dump two sacks of garden fertiliser . |
| 3 | I was looking for space for something , I 've forgotten what it wa Oh I had a big spreadsheet |
| 4 | Leapor 's only way of striking back at her father to whom she was looking for support , was , by this reasoning , to write a poem as a cathartic fantasy . |
| 5 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 6 | And Roland was looking for sources for Ash 's Garden of Proserpina . |
| 7 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 8 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 9 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 10 | I was a child who 'd lost his own mother , and was looking for affection . |
| 11 | I never wilted and was proud of my fighting qualities when I was looking for survival and happy for any form of success . |
| 12 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 13 | I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans . |
| 14 | We were living here and there , and I was looking for investors , so we gave a care-of-Cook 's address . |
| 15 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 16 | At first I found this rather frustrating , since I was looking for answers . |
| 17 | He was looking for Brenda Blond . |
| 18 | ‘ Everyone was looking for reasons why he left us and no-one appreciated at the time that his health was suffering . |
| 19 | She wanted to be able to hate him again , and she was looking for reasons . |
| 20 | I 'm writing with regard to a letter from Andy Mitchell from Ashington ( Aug ‘ 92 ) , who was looking for help in the preamp/processor direction , and was looking for the Eddie Van Halen , Brian May and the Nuno Bettencourt sounds for his processor . |
| 21 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 22 | She was looking for help , advice , that sort of thing ? ’ |
| 23 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 24 | I was looking for signs afterwards . |
| 25 | He was looking for signs that people were not as they first appeared to be , and Charity seemed to be a case of history repeating itself . |
| 26 | The local cop was called and he was looking for Howie . ’ |
| 27 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 28 | Nicandra was looking for difficulties . |
| 29 | I was looking for Kit-Kat but they did n't have any . |
| 30 | Or that , getting on , she was looking for adventure , a final fling ? |