Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Science has got to go on looking for knowledge . |
| 2 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 3 | He tossed his horse 's reins to a groom and went storming off looking for Dacourt . |
| 4 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 5 | Jahsaxa will have to come here looking for you eventually . |
| 6 | Dilip Vengsarkar came in looking for his fourth hundred in as many Lord 's appearances and immediately joined Shastri in exploiting the unpatrolled third-man boundary . |
| 7 | ‘ Is that right the filth came in looking for your Mickey and the electric went ? |
| 8 | Then , right after he and Mr. Mendez left , a mustered-out soldier from Thomas came in looking for passage to Bisbee . |
| 9 | Sure Ji he came in looking for Jim one morning and Jim was n't there , says he 's in bed so listen I said do you wan na go up and waken him like fuck Jim says when Acky woke me I said what you mean he give you a kiss and he woke you up . |
| 10 | O'Shaughnessy tried to chip Perks from 25 yards but failed admirably , Mardenborough twice shot wide looking for his hat trick , Gaughan twice broke through on his own but was denied by the keeper , and Ellison hit the post from an acute angle in the last minute . |
| 11 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 12 | Santerre has proved to be a most loyal subject of the King but Hopkins served him as a chaplain and Buckingham came here looking for those relics . ’ |
| 13 | She came here looking for somewhere to live . |
| 14 | I was wandering around looking for her and the plane exploded behind me . |
| 15 | Well , I was wandering around looking for a rococo palace … ’ |
| 16 | Erm obviously the er and as Alan 's asked us few weeks ago , permission to explore maybe looking for the finances , if and when it became the situation . |
| 17 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 18 | Quite strange but as soon as he 's paid for for the goods and got the goods the chap 's going to go off looking for another . |
| 19 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 20 | Now — are you going on looking for more ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 22 | In the meantime , Henley had become a successful club recognised everywhere as one of the friendliest — where a chap can be assured of a game at weekends by simply turning up looking for one ; a Club with a pretty , well kept , interesting course ; a 19th hole where there is good refreshment and some comfortable chairs ; an excellent Professional 's shop and a social and golfing calendar second to none and the envy of most . |
| 23 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 24 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 25 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 26 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 27 | with a pair of binoculars , turning round looking for planes coming in |
| 28 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 29 | Nayim now forward to Paul Stewart , sorry to Paul Allen , Allen lays it wide now to Fenwick , Fenwick to Gascoigne , Gascoigne cuts inside , this is where he 's his most dangerous , Gascoigne going forward looking for the one two to Walsh , to Gascoigne , Gascoigne 's on his way through , Gascoigne shoots — tremendous tackle — oh what a goal by Paul Gascoigne . |
| 30 | I have therefore given up looking for someone . ’ |