Example sentences of "[verb] around for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 2 | ‘ Leaseholders wo n't hang around for 16 years in a pub , because leases can be sold on . |
| 3 | He wandered around for fifteen minutes examining the piping , whistling quietly to himself , stopping occasionally to put his ear to a joint , and then pulled a hammer out of his tool-bag and tapped smartly on one particular valve . |
| 4 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 5 | But he was advised to start looking around for other work . |
| 6 | Please could you confirm this is all OK , as if it is n't I shall be looking around for other people as my financial situation gets monthly more worrying ! |
| 7 | We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that . |
| 8 | So why should we still be looking around for suitable composts ? |
| 9 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 10 | he wheedled , looking around for any likely victims . |
| 11 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 12 | Throughout the entire 50 minutes of grilling on low heat , Judd Lander sits nervously , looking around for more people to ask questions . |
| 13 | I can promise you , however , that if you walk around for three weeks with a chest pain , fearing a heart attack at the age of 43 , and you are told you have a hiatus hernia you feel a great relief . |
| 14 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 15 | Shop around for good fish ; active and robust , with well-developed fins and good colour . |
| 16 | Shop around for best rates |
| 17 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 19 | Archbishop Fisher and Archbishop Garbett of York started to look around for scholarly clergymen and hovered over various names , ail of whom taught then or had taught in universities . |
| 20 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 21 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |
| 22 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
| 23 | Did you search around for any other reasons , such as the mention of a possible strategic reserve ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 's what I hang around for all day , ’ said the poet , ‘ when your mother is doing something useful . ’ |
| 25 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
| 26 | Once you have thoroughly reorganized your existing storage you can look around for new surfaces to conquer . |
| 27 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
| 28 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 29 | Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days . |
| 30 | After waiting around for some considerable time to see if there was any chance that Elector Carl Theodor would offer him even a temporary appointment , Mozart was informed that it was not to be . |