Example sentences of "[noun sg] looking for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 2 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 3 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 4 | The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions . |
| 5 | Looking for them was in effect looking for Adam Boteler , who alone had been marked and recognised ; and Adam had orders to remain out of sight in Castell Coch until the second attempt was ready to be launched . |
| 6 | Drawn in the deeper water upstream of the suspension bridge on the Groves section and facing the boathouse , Winston used a small swimfeeder rig looking for fall-back bites on double maggot from the dace and roach . |
| 7 | When a prospect comes to the stand looking for literature , this should be an ideal opportunity for the salesperson to establish contact and obtain details of the prospect . |
| 8 | The Wallabies had an early morning departure so Ofahengaue returned to the hotel at 4.30a.m. — only to find St George officials waiting in a car in the hotel car park looking for Ofahengaue to return . |
| 9 | Buyer looking for suppliers |
| 10 | You spent half and hour looking for lemons and salt . ’ |
| 11 | The very next week an advertisement came round the office from Scottish Overseas Health Support looking for nurse teachers to go out to Saudi Arabia to set up a training programme for dental hygienists , medical records officers and ( you 've guessed it ) nurses , CAUGHT ! ! |
| 12 | In a speech in Brussels in November 1991 , Sir Geoffrey laid out his stall as a British retailer looking for partners in Europe . |
| 13 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 14 | She could follow the shoreline all the way to where they had pulled up that afternoon looking for shelter , but that would take hours . |
| 15 | The place looks like it was ransacked by an LAPD squadron looking for drugs or a thrash metal band who found them . |
| 16 | Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues . |
| 17 | Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues . |
| 18 | Curtius Kenne was staring at Jessamyn as if Jesus H. Christ himself had ridden into town on a donkey , walked into the bar looking for trouble , and kicked him in the gazebos with steel-spiked sandals . |
| 19 | ‘ They left furs , stereos and other valuables but made a terrible mess looking for cash and jewels , especially in the bedrooms . |
| 20 | SUN LOOKING FOR HOME FOR HYPERSPARC |
| 21 | He did n't like people watching his horses work from the road but this was only a woman , probably some jumped-up point-to-point type looking for training tips . |
| 22 | ‘ When Luke was told , he went to the village looking for Gallagher , taking Sonny with him . |
| 23 | People were always coming into the shop looking for things to copy . |
| 24 | Madra helped Ratagan with the fire , and when Riven had done the best he could with his ripped clothing he wandered about the campsite looking for firewood . |
| 25 | I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work . |
| 26 | She 's going around calling me a murderer and she 's invited this Cobalt in to turn over the place looking for drugs . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , if two members of staff happen to fall in love and decide to marry , it would be churlish to be apportioning blame ; but what I find a major irritation are those persons — and housekeepers are particularly guilty here — who have no genuine commitment to their profession and who are essentially going from post to post looking for romance . |
| 28 | I wonder if the Archers ' script writers will be at that meeting looking for ideas ? |
| 29 | Flynn said , ‘ Come on , we 'll get him , ’ and so we spent a whole evening looking for Fidler . |
| 30 | This is a position which requires the researcher to adopt a false role , for example , pretending to be an author looking for atmosphere for a book or pretending to be a management trainee with a firm . |