Example sentences of "and looking for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must keep trying and looking for successes , however small . |
| 2 | A useful way of developing creative thinking and one which can be of great benefit when you are studying and looking for inspiration is the technique of key words or key terms . |
| 3 | They set up random checkpoints on roads between Ballymena and Portstewart stopping vehicles and looking for drugs . |
| 4 | A poet might be attached to a household , or , increasingly , be dependent on travelling between households , performing his work and looking for hospitality and support . |
| 5 | It strikes me that Glamorgan have left themselves with another internal problem they could have done without now they are rebuilding and looking for stability after those years of committee trauma and musical chairs among the skippers . |
| 6 | I spend days walking and looking for compositions . |
| 7 | To my knowledge , cranks and dreamers have gone around talking about and looking for Homo superior ever since the primitive times when writers still used paper . |
| 8 | William Davis , Chairman of the British Tourist Authority , says overseas visitors are still coming but they 're trading down and looking for bargains . |
| 9 | As our eyes open to the perilous state of the world , it is hardly surprising that so many sensible people are turning instinctively to the land and looking for smallholdings . |
| 10 | Of course there are humdrum jobs to be done like pasting things on boards and looking for scrap art from magazines to use in rough layouts . |
| 11 | From Table 4.1 it can be seen that almost one-third of IT postgraduates would be unemployed and looking for work at the end of their course . |
| 12 | We have spent some passionate evenings together changing traveller 's cheques and looking for medicine to cure stomach disorders . |
| 13 | And then there 's poor Aldershot , over £1.2 million in the red and looking for handouts . |
| 14 | and comparing it with pig blood infected with ASFV and looking for similarities . |
| 15 | Here is the appalling Bliss family in their anyone-for-tennis country home : actress mother , artistic father , precocious children — all of them vain and selfish and looking for amusement and romantic intrigue from their weekend guests . |
| 16 | Peirce had set himself the task of methodically classifying , and looking for applications of , the n-dimensional systems for all |
| 17 | But for Mr Maurice Healey , 13 years spent testing the strength of cotton and looking for flaws caused his passion for painting to blossom . |
| 18 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 19 | But I mean I , I see no point in all of us going out and looking for presents . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's why I 'm always encouraging and looking for opportunities for the team . |
| 21 | and I do prefer to work on the er on a personal recommendations or referrals basis because that actually allows me to , to devote most of my time to my current clients without having to go out cold calling and looking for people . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept . |
| 23 | The general rules on Hering 's law of cure and looking for improvement in well-being still applies but it is necessary to take into account pathological tissues change . |