Example sentences of "[verb] round for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
| 32 | She looked round for support . |
| 33 | He looked round for inspiration . |
| 34 | Kenneth glanced at him , then looked round for Lachlan Watt ; he was sitting on a distant chair , a plate of food balanced on his knees , talking to Shona Watt , his sister-in-law . |
| 35 | Pipkin , who looked round for Hazel and then came over to wait beside him . |
| 36 | He looked round for Huw Pritchard , but could n't find him . |
| 37 | She looked round for Hotspur , but he was not there . |
| 38 | She looked round for Leo , but he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 39 | She can come round for quarter an hour if she wants . |
| 40 | Children and church helpers spent Saturday afternoon making certain there were enough traditional Mothering Sunday posies to go round for mothers of all ages . |
| 41 | Come round for dinner . |
| 42 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
| 43 | If she had still been in love with Finn , Lydia would not now be casting round for ways to entertain herself . |
| 44 | ‘ He likes the way they suddenly drop the whole interlocking tangle of folding and faulting and erosion , and stroll round for lunch in the pub they 've adopted . |
| 45 | He likes the way they suddenly drop the whole interlocking tangle of folding and faulting and erosion , and stroll round for lunch in the pub they 've adopted . |
| 46 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 47 | They 'll scoot off to the Lake District and search round for days . ’ |
| 48 | I mean just read round for fun yo and see if there 's anything that sticks and if you get chance to use it in an exam , do Okay , then it says develop a stock of gems . |