Example sentences of "in [noun] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the boys drift into and out of minor delinquencies while hanging around the streets in groups looking for something to do , as the following extract from his study illustrates . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 3 | Looking for them was in effect looking for Adam Boteler , who alone had been marked and recognised ; and Adam had orders to remain out of sight in Castell Coch until the second attempt was ready to be launched . |
| 4 | 1 Three hour family walk in Pembrokeshire looking for animal tracks . |
| 5 | All I 'm saying is that we do n't have to go groping about in corners looking for motive , there 's plenty of it lying about . |
| 6 | Manufacturers in plastics looking for a new aquatic widget are invited to contact Iwan Davies for details of his O 2 Enhancer which he has designed to spread water more effectively over trickle filter media . |
| 7 | 1 Woodland walks in Rossendale looking for insects and fungi with Lancashire Wildlife Trust . |
| 8 | ‘ Because I feel as if I 'm running around in circles looking for answers . ’ |
| 9 | Jim Blackie , 41 , remembers catching the bus from his home in Gateshead every Friday night to go to the Oxford in the Sixties ‘ Everybody used to walk around in circles looking for a girl . |
| 10 | The study of society would be a chair-bound discipline indeed if its practitioners did not move about in society looking for ideas . |
| 11 | Appetites were whetted among those working on the Tron project and a host of computer animation specialists sprang up in California looking for a piece of the Hollywood action . |
| 12 | And you and I in our journey in life looking for what we could get , hoping to make it we 've now been made joint heirs with Jesus Christ entering into his inheritance . |
| 13 | Three BIE conference delegates walked into a hotel in Peebles looking for accommodation . |
| 14 | He circulated two new rumours a day : cholera was sweeping Paris ; the Kaiser was in Rome looking for a divorce ; the kitchen was putting aphrodisiacs in the gravy ; Lloyd George had been charged with rape ; Switzerland had invaded Germany . |