Example sentences of "look [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When recruiting , the Profitboss looks only for potential profit contribution , for profit-seeking attitudes and ability . |
| 2 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 3 | Fagg and Blenkinsop gossip and doze , sometimes joined by Fishbane , and the occasional non-resident looks in for afternoon tea . |
| 4 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 5 | Having looked unsuccessfully for such a bird house , I would like to find the name of a stockist . |
| 6 | She looks incuriously for a moment , not to be outfaced , and then turns away . |
| 7 | Relapses are common and should be looked out for . |
| 8 | It is to suggest that sexual difficulty , or problems in the field of sexual relationship , should be looked out for more often by social workers and others concerned with them , and looked at more from the child 's own point of view . |
| 9 | On his earlier journey across the mountains Giles had looked out for landmarks — a waterfall , an old tree , a small lake . |
| 10 | Price rises were similar whether the illegal trade was detected by a stock exchange — which looks out for unusually large price jumps — or by tip-offs from jilted mistresses and the like , who probably do not . |
| 11 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |
| 12 | Erm , so he always looks out for police cars now , but he still wo n't wear his belt . |
| 13 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 14 | Next , he looks around for credit terms paying a one-fifth deposit of £20 , and the rest in 24 monthly instalments . |
| 15 | John looks around for Paul . |
| 16 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 17 | He looks around for Mark . |
| 18 | And as he goes under the hooves Andy looks around for John , eyes wide , but John can not help him . |
| 19 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 20 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |
| 21 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 22 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 23 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 24 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 25 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 26 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 27 | Outsiders have looked hard for an arrangement for the southern Slavs . |
| 28 | ‘ We have looked everywhere for players , but it will be easier in the Premier League . |
| 29 | I 've looked everywhere for a weapon , but there 's nothing of any use , even if I had the strength and skill . |
| 30 | Harrison leapt up instantly to hold out his hand and immediately looked about for Mary and shook his head . |