Example sentences of "[pers pn] seek out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day after my arrival at Bletchley , I heard a Scottish voice and , being a little homesick , I sought out the owner . |
| 2 | More than 40 years later , on a drizzly Friday morning in October , I seek out the rue Didouche Mourad as it is now called . |
| 3 | She sought out the darkest room and even then closed the shutters , though it was only early morning , and lay on her bed without energy even to feed her son . |
| 4 | She seeks out the host queen , and rides about on her back while she quietly performs , to quote Edward Wilson 's artfully macabre understatement , ‘ the one act for which she is uniquely specialized : slowly cutting off the head of her victim ’ . |
| 5 | When we arrived we sought out the ‘ dug out ’ . |
| 6 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 7 | They sought out the most profitable lines produced in the most efficient of their plants operating with the cheapest labour available . |
| 8 | Commission officials say that they sought out the most talented people in each field , regardless of gender or race . |
| 9 | With his poker and torch he sought out the noise . |
| 10 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |