Example sentences of "[verb] around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many times have you faced the glares of your fellow shoppers in supermarkets as you struggle to pack your bags with one hand and write a cheque with the other , or fumble around for cash to pay for your goods . |
| 2 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 3 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 4 | He would be up with the morning chorus , while Beth was happy to mooch around for hours in her nightdress , drinking black coffee , smoking cigarettes and watching breakfast television . |
| 5 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 6 | Next , he looks around for credit terms paying a one-fifth deposit of £20 , and the rest in 24 monthly instalments . |
| 7 | John looks around for Paul . |
| 8 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 9 | He looks around for Mark . |
| 10 | And as he goes under the hooves Andy looks around for John , eyes wide , but John can not help him . |
| 11 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 12 | Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes . |
| 13 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 14 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 15 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 16 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 17 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 18 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |
| 19 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 20 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 21 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 22 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 23 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 24 | ‘ Leaseholders wo n't hang around for 16 years in a pub , because leases can be sold on . |
| 25 | Tackling a black run in a blizzard was a worry , but when you only have a long weekend you ca n't hang around for the sun to shine . |
| 26 | ‘ You might as well hang around for as long as you can . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Which makes it more difficult for us , ’ said Pooley , ‘ since they did n't hang around for as long as usual , and therefore every single one of them was unobserved by the others for a minimum of half an hour . ’ |
| 28 | So you do n't hang around for money in our in our company . |
| 29 | We did n't hang around for as long that day — we must rigged the boats ( with a little help ) and prepared to set off . |
| 30 | ‘ you come in ere half pissed once a month , usually around midnight , and expect me to jump around for you , now you 're bringing you mates as well . ’ |