Example sentences of "[v-ing] around for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was advised to start looking around for other work . |
| 2 | Please could you confirm this is all OK , as if it is n't I shall be looking around for other people as my financial situation gets monthly more worrying ! |
| 3 | We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that . |
| 4 | So why should we still be looking around for suitable composts ? |
| 5 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 6 | Snuffling around for untapped niche markets , Unipalm Ltd , based in Cambridge , has come up with Mail-it , a Microsoft Windows-to-Unix connectivity E-mail package . |
| 7 | Some people think that having reasons for faith is an insult to God , as if we were desperately grubbing around for make-shift reasons to believe in him . |
| 8 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
| 9 | few would deny that the CMHTs almost immediately ran into problems due to the squeeze on local authority budgets and found themselves scrabbling around for alternative resources ; |
| 10 | Seems Novell Inc missed a first call of the open systems boat back in its dim and distant proprietary past , when Reading , Berkshire-based X/Open Co Ltd was casting around for inter face technology that could tie personal computer networks into open systems . |
| 11 | For a moment it was as if he was casting around for suitable names , and then suddenly he was looking past Alexei towards Jehan . |
| 12 | Probably recommendable chiefly to Britflick completists and producers shopping around for cheap talent . |
| 13 | The research concluded that , in some respects , patients could and did behave like consumers in a marketplace , shopping around for good quality care . |
| 14 | While there is no evidence that either attempted to widen its options to the extent of shopping around for nuclear alternatives , both certainly took steps in the direction of nuclear-reactor installation , whether for research or power generation . |