Example sentences of "[noun sg] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 2 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 3 | A rock journalist looking for a scoop ? |
| 4 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 5 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 7 | The trouble is that , with the club looking for immediate improved results , it is sometimes difficult to persevere for too long with newcomers . |
| 8 | The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions . |
| 9 | The wee ginger-haired midfielder who was once described as ‘ a volcano looking for somewhere to explode , ’ took his men on a drinking spree that stretched from the downstairs bar of the Marina Hotel to an exclusive Copenhagen night club called ‘ Bonaparte 's ’ , and back again . |
| 10 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 11 | A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower . |
| 12 | The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning , two miles away from post number seven , is irrelevant . |
| 13 | Looking for them was in effect looking for Adam Boteler , who alone had been marked and recognised ; and Adam had orders to remain out of sight in Castell Coch until the second attempt was ready to be launched . |
| 14 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 15 | Do you remember looking over the ship 's side at the flying fish , and the phosphorus gleaming along the side of the ship at night — and of course looking for the Southern Cross in the stars at night ? |
| 16 | Drawn in the deeper water upstream of the suspension bridge on the Groves section and facing the boathouse , Winston used a small swimfeeder rig looking for fall-back bites on double maggot from the dace and roach . |
| 17 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 18 | When a prospect comes to the stand looking for literature , this should be an ideal opportunity for the salesperson to establish contact and obtain details of the prospect . |
| 19 | Thus the same researcher not only carries out the basic work on a new product but — equally important — is out in the market-place looking for and trying to solve customer problems . |
| 20 | The Wallabies had an early morning departure so Ofahengaue returned to the hotel at 4.30a.m. — only to find St George officials waiting in a car in the hotel car park looking for Ofahengaue to return . |
| 21 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 22 | Buyer looking for suppliers |
| 23 | You spent half and hour looking for lemons and salt . ’ |
| 24 | You should also review the case looking for the more individual features in it . |
| 25 | When Heathcliff went out to look for our horses , Cathy and I hurried round the kitchen looking for a way to escape . |
| 26 | The very next week an advertisement came round the office from Scottish Overseas Health Support looking for nurse teachers to go out to Saudi Arabia to set up a training programme for dental hygienists , medical records officers and ( you 've guessed it ) nurses , CAUGHT ! ! |
| 27 | In a speech in Brussels in November 1991 , Sir Geoffrey laid out his stall as a British retailer looking for partners in Europe . |
| 28 | ‘ I sometimes think you hate everyone , ’ said Betty , who would have liked to go round India on a bicycle in an orange robe looking for an Enlightened One . |
| 29 | I 'm a tall , dark , athletic male lookIng for an attractive and lonely female to give loads of affection to , and to put the sparkle into her beautiful eyes . |
| 30 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |