Example sentences of "[pers pn] look for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I look for listlessness , restlessness — anything abnormal . |
2 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
3 | I myself , for example , tend to be erm an old-fashioned Coleridgean psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters in ways which L C Knight 's told us we should n't do . |
4 | I look for Rice Krispies . |
5 | I look for medium and long-term planning , not the short-termism that we have seen too often , and I shall happily support the amendment . |
6 | ‘ I look for artists of exceptional talent , artists who are totally unique , irrespective of genre — and that 's always been my A&R policy . |
7 | With rushing eagerness I look for calm — to the ocean , not its nervous surface and its frayed edges , but the hidden depth to which everything is eventually returned . |
8 | ‘ We 've still a way to go but I look for improvement all the time and our start this season has shown just that . ’ |
9 | As a young player I look for subtlety and skill , not big top spin shots all the time . |
10 | I look for people with clever fingers |
11 | When I look for Truth , Ahimsa says ‘ Find it through me' ’ . ' |
12 | So it is to them , the creators of American literature , that I look for clarification about the invention and effect of Africanism in the United States . |
13 | When this happens , the first place I look for trouble is at the sinker posts . |
14 | When I look for Ahimsa , Truth says , ‘ Find it through me' ’ . |
15 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
16 | Some advisers suggest that you look to past precedents within the company ; others recommend that you gear your expectations to the financial sum that you expect to require in order to exist in reasonable comfort until another job comes along ; others simply suggest that you look for payment of a year 's full salary . |
17 | I 'm doing that talking to you look for Jim Bowen 's mobile phone number so I thought we 'd give him a ring that 'll surprise him wont it ? |
18 | You look for qualities that match the actor to the character . |
19 | If you look for strips of young geraniums at the garden centre , you should be able to get F1 hybrids for around 60p or so a plant . |
20 | Never keep callers waiting while you look for information or try to transfer them , etc. , without explaining what you are doing and giving them a chance to call back if they are in a hurry or if they are calling long-distance . |
21 | You look for ways to ensure that either it can be regularly dealt with by someone else or at least that it should reach you partly or virtually completed . |
22 | Append is where you look for data files if the path is not otherwise specified . |
23 | That 's what you look for , you see , you look for corcus races really and while conflict is perfectly real , and no question of that , but it tremendously easily becomes pathological and gets out of hand and a good deal of social organization consists really and how do you erm in a sense how do you keep people and societies from falling over these cliffs ? |
24 | When you look for training , how do you choose ? |
25 | In winter we look for work on the more difficult lowland sites such as coastal paths . |
26 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
27 | If we have only indicators what his methodological reasoning suggests is that we look for patterns among indicators which might suggest that we have found something of substance and significance . |
28 | And yet , if we look for signs of the biblical revival that the Council wanted to awaken , in many ways and in many parts of the Catholic world the answer is indeed ‘ yes ’ , and all the more so if we remember how much leeway there was to be made up in knowledge and use of the Bible by Catholics . |
29 | We look for signs that speak to us of character — good or bad . |
30 | The possible states preceding the solution-state are taken as destinations and we look for states that might have preceded each of them … and so on back , until we are within range of where we start . |