Example sentences of "[v-ing] round for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We quickly found that few places would let us play so we started looking round for alternatives . |
| 2 | As a matter of fact a fre fellow named lived in here and he was a traveller to er George he 's one of the best , biggest rim lockmakers in the town , anyway , they 're on this erm now and er he was going round for orders for regulars of his , for his firm and somebody , one day , asked him look here , we 've got a little awkward job here , you know anybody the can you do it ? |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 4 | Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street , but MPs were convinced that it had been a stormy session , with ministers bitterly fighting their corners in what has been described as the most stringent public spending round for years . |
| 5 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
| 6 | If she had still been in love with Finn , Lydia would not now be casting round for ways to entertain herself . |