Example sentences of "out looking [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | . As I said , people go out looking for stress . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They 're out looking for seed money and a board now with a deadline of December . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |