Example sentences of "to look for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is natural to set out to look for something with a rigid set of requirements : to know precisely what we are looking for . |
| 2 | On securing his BSc at University , he considered a permanent position with Bauteil , but decided to look for something with better prospects . |
| 3 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 4 | ‘ But he 'd never think to look for me in such company . ’ |
| 5 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 6 | And when Mother came to look for them at eight o'clock , they were asleep in the sun . |
| 7 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 8 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 9 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 10 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 11 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |