Example sentences of "[verb] around for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 2 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We could n't wait around for the magic day when the men turned to us and said , ‘ OK girls , now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 5 | Now that circumstances have conspired to make an immediate share issue an unattractive option , Dell Computer Corp is looking around for the best alternative to raise cash to finance its soaraway growth . |
| 6 | For many people it is a matter of looking around for the car they want and then frantically trying to arrange the finance , whilst the ‘ offer ’ still holds . |
| 7 | Someone must have done some extensive informing , because MacLane picked Susan and me out of the crowd without even the pretence of looking around for the usual suspects . |
| 8 | Could she really have been reading that ? he wondered , looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion . |
| 9 | Things were n't going well for the American studios , either at home or in the UK , and they became increasingly desperate , hunting around for the winning formula some had lost and others never found . |
| 10 | Just take it from me that it 's not in your best interests to go hunting around for the ship . ’ |
| 11 | In Budapest , they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it . |
| 12 | A full service history is essential and mechanical repair can be expensive , so shop around for the top examples . |
| 13 | Shop around for the best possible deals and the best service . |
| 14 | Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) . |
| 15 | So if you are foaming over the price of a pint , shop around for the special offers . |
| 16 | With higher power , you need more light , so bigger lenses — so try 8x30 , 8x40 , 10x40 or 10x50 at a good store , and shop around for the best price . |
| 17 | I did n't stick around for the session . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , if you got too close to him you were tempted to look around for the source of the odour — perhaps there was an overdressed salad in the vicinity ? |
| 19 | ‘ First , because other insurers have intermediaries who are forced by competition to look around for the best price . |
| 20 | Wants to look around for the wallet while I 'm not here , thought Joe . |
| 21 | Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation . |
| 22 | A composer is haunted by certain themes , subjects or moods , and he must look around for the stories or dramatic vehicles he needs to bring these themes to life as musical theatre . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 24 | The beard algae had survived because the Flying Foxes had discovered that scavenging for algae was a poor way to live , compared with waiting around for the food for the Clown Loaches to arrive — and then nipping in smartish while the Loaches were still bumbling about . |
| 25 | Novell Inc Japan , which will be Univel Inc 's distributor there , is n't waiting around for the Japanese version of UnixWare to start its assault on the market . |
| 26 | He began to tidy it up and look around for the plastic bag . |
| 27 | Most popular are precast concrete paviours and slabs , but look around for the more interesting surface textures and designs . |
| 28 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 29 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 30 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |