Example sentences of "out looking for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His nights out looking for girls had always been insecure , lonely operations . |
| 2 | As Vass watched her , saying nothing , Lisa hurried on , ‘ Someone whom you have unfairly deprived of a job is far more likely , I would have thought , to be out looking for revenge . ’ |
| 3 | . As I said , people go out looking for stress . |
| 4 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 5 | ‘ He was out looking for Jesus . ’ |
| 6 | The researcher goes out looking for respondents who conform to the quota requirements , either by knocking on doors or by asking people in the street to participate : it must be stressed that the point is not to interview everyone who happens to live on the street or who happens to pass by , but only those who conform to the quota controls and in the proportions specified . |
| 7 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 8 | ‘ I know ; Dippy Martin was out looking for Cissie . ’ |
| 9 | They 're out looking for seed money and a board now with a deadline of December . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |
| 11 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |