Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I beg your pardon for intruding , ’ she said , ‘ but I came looking for someone to serve me with petrol and I heard your voices and then what you said about Brownies . ’ |
| 2 | So anyway , I came looking for you . |
| 3 | ‘ I came looking for Brenda Blond . ’ |
| 4 | That 's the first place I tried , when I started looking for you . |
| 5 | You do n't get anything on this scale without communication lines , so I started looking for them . ’ |
| 6 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 7 | So erm , round his bottom and it 's all round know , and I keep looking for signs of bleeding and all this . |
| 8 | I went looking for it with my cousin Peter . " |
| 9 | I went looking for a quiet place to sit — while gazing with interest at the multi armed , three-breasted Salmo'kkan dancers being sinuous on a mini-stage when I was frozen in mid stride |
| 10 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 11 | B … ’ she began , got herself together from his impudence , and could see no reason not to reveal , ‘ I went looking for somewhere else to live . ’ |
| 12 | I went looking for somewhere cheaper to — ’ |
| 13 | So I went looking for it and could n't find it ! |
| 14 | ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’ |
| 15 | He gained third place in the 1988 Ilford Photographic Awards Features category for one of those pictures , but jokes that on his arrival in Africa ‘ I kept looking for a cheque presentation because that 's all I was trained to do . ’ |
| 16 | And if she 's called round she goes looking for a cardigan or something on . |
| 17 | It may well force you to go looking for more information about your potential audience . |
| 18 | Oh listen Margaret do you know looking for the the plinth in the drawer . |
| 19 | ‘ It was kind of you to come looking for me , anyway , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 20 | I suggest that you rapidly review your attitude to your wife 's sexual and emotional needs — before she starts looking for love play elsewhere . |
| 21 | Did you plan that little interlude before you came looking for me , just as you planned what happened this afternoon ? ’ |
| 22 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 23 | Sue Hill was 35 when she started looking for a job nearly two years ago . |
| 24 | She started looking for me . |
| 25 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 26 | First , make sure you know what you want to do before you go looking for a solution . |
| 27 | Dad said if you go looking for a motor got a magnet at work , take that with you . |
| 28 | It used to be the case that one had to find a property that one wanted to buy first and then apply for a mortgage , but some organisations will now provide a mortgage guarantee document , that is to say an assurance of the amount of money they will lend you , before you start looking for a property . |
| 29 | Before you start looking for the file , you know what the file name is . |
| 30 | You come looking for a fight — and you 're going to get one . |