Example sentences of "[vb past] round for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 2 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 3 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 4 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll never believe he done it , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , when she came round for a cup of tea and a slice of the action , ‘ not if he 's convicted by a dozen juries , and do n't tell me he 'll get a fair trial in the current climate of opinion , not unless they pick twelve men the same size and true . |
| 6 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 7 | We turned round for a look . |
| 8 | Cal turned round for the first time and stared at Vern . |
| 9 | The crowd pressed round for a better view . |
| 10 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 11 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 12 | Like many footballers at the twilight of their careers , Rough looked round for a suitable business interest and eventually opened his own shop in Musselburgh . |
| 13 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 14 | Both guards broke clear , looked round for a moment and then leapt up the bank into the wood . |
| 15 | Ruth looked round for a clock , but there was no clock in the room . |
| 16 | She looked round for a plain grave . |
| 17 | He looked round for a weapon to fight with , but Fagin already had a heavy metal pot in his hand . |
| 18 | He looked round for a stick or prop which he could use to dislodge Yussuf . |
| 19 | There was no table set and she looked round for a sideboard that must house such things as cutlery . |
| 20 | She looked round for the entrance . |
| 21 | If Owen looked round for the cameras , North acted throughout as though he was sure they were there . |
| 22 | She helped the younger woman to the kitchen , put her on a chair and looked round for the kettle . |
| 23 | It slithered on to the road , looked round for the nearest tuft of grass and made straight for it , pulling Mr Bean after it . |
| 24 | Ho looked round for the first time at the massed ranks of Glories with their headlights blazing , and the two figures , stark in the hard glaring light of those headlights , seated opposite each other at the stone table under the Monument . |
| 25 | After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth . |
| 26 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 27 | He looked round for the instrument and saw it on top of one of the presses . |
| 28 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 29 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 30 | I searched round for a crumb of comfort . |