Example sentences of "[pron] look [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 2 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 3 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 4 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 5 | Now we need an optimistic accountant , can somebody look out for an optimistic accountant |
| 6 | She looked round for a plain grave . |
| 7 | She looked around for a blunt instrument . |
| 8 | Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , everyone looked around for a similar opportunity . |
| 10 | After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth . |
| 11 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 12 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |