Example sentences of "[vb past] to look for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 2 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 3 | I moved to look for the girl . |
| 4 | His greatest wall had been built when Mr Fractor came to look for a book on logarithms . |
| 5 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
| 6 | So we agreed to look for a new approach " . |
| 7 | On Oct. 28 , Azerbaijan 's President Abulfaz Elchibey agreed to look for a compromise candidate for interior minister . |
| 8 | Sara began to look for a cup . |
| 9 | She began to look for a university job outside Cambridge . |
| 10 | But , in the summer of 1945 , he took a furnished room in Kensington and began to look for a suitable and convenient residence of his own . |
| 11 | The March Hare poured a little hot tea on its nose , and the Hatter began to look for a clean plate . |
| 12 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 13 | So I began to look for a husband . |
| 14 | Eventually , they entered London , and Noah began to look for a quiet , cheap pub where they could spend the night . |
| 15 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 16 | He began to look for a job . |
| 17 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 18 | Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in . |
| 19 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 20 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 21 | Stan began to look for the even rarer amphibians . |
| 22 | Sotheby 's began to look for an escape route : they could not risk the picture 's returning to the market and failing to hold its theoretical value . |
| 23 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 24 | The long-standing US-Japan Cooperative Earthquake Research Program , which the National Science Foundation and the Japanese government pay for , decided to look for a cheaper way of doing things . |
| 25 | However , before the electron microscope was available , in fact in 1937 , Andrade and Tsien decided to look for the cracks by the method of decoration , using of course an optical microscope . |
| 26 | Having got the company going , he decided to look for an accountant . |
| 27 | ‘ I went to look for a new car and the Lord said to me , ‘ Richie , you buy this car . |
| 28 | The stricken suitor followed the tradition laid down in these matters and went to look for a fight . |
| 29 | Sub-Prior Richard , a kindly soul even to those for whom he had no particular liking , grew anxious , and went to look for the stray , and found him on his bed in the dortoir , pallid and shivering , pleading sickness and looking pinched , grey and cold . |
| 30 | He switched off the little girl on Terry Wogan and went to look for the Sturgeon . |