Example sentences of "to look for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening Friday went out to look for a turtle for meat and eggs . |
| 2 | You 've got to look for a home for her now , cos we 're er , moving home . |
| 3 | ‘ There are children with physical , mental and behavioural difficulties and we have to look for a range of staff to reflect the balance , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The next day we went to Breckland to look for a bird that some people think of as ‘ a bit of a bustard ’ . |
| 5 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 6 | So they will need to look for a company that is reliable and responsible over a long term , and offers a variety of ancillary services . ’ |
| 7 | Christine and Tony had decided to look for a girl of about 2 , since they felt a baby would be too much to cope with and a 2- year-old could accompany Christine to nursery school . |
| 8 | been trying to look for a bit of paper and I opened a book today and found it ! |
| 9 | If the Club was to look for a return on its money , as any other investing institution would , the criteria for that return would be two fold ; a boom in the popularity of tennis at grass roots level and/or impressive results at international level . |
| 10 | He went down the road to the junction to look for a taxi . |
| 11 | So if you want to look for a short-term , meaning 18 months , competitive battle that will be the most interesting , the server battle between NT and NetWare will be a major area of competition . ’ |
| 12 | So if you want to look for a short-term , meaning 18 months , competitive battle that will be the most interesting , the server battle between NT and NetWare will be a major area of competition , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The stricken suitor followed the tradition laid down in these matters and went to look for a fight . |
| 14 | By mid-afternoon I was almost at Freiburg and left the motorway to look for a village in which to stay , preferably near the Rhine . |
| 15 | I dared not turn round now to look for a vehicle , but I held my breath and listened for one — there was only the sound of my rubber soles on the macadam and the noise of wind . |
| 16 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 17 | And help was forthcoming , for there was a whole row of somehow familiar books , and the name on the back , she could just decipher it , was Candida something , why yes , of course , Candida Gray , she saw it with a flash of inspiration , for it had never occurred to her to look for a surname other than the one that she already knew . |
| 18 | Training to be a teacher and with a wisdom that belied her years , she explained that it was her half-brother who was now living in Mainz and had suggested that Erich ( the Dusseldorfer ) travel down to Tonga to look for a wife . |
| 19 | She began to look for a university job outside Cambridge . |
| 20 | On Oct. 28 , Azerbaijan 's President Abulfaz Elchibey agreed to look for a compromise candidate for interior minister . |
| 21 | The British could only watch and hope , yet at the same time they provoked some American complaints that their instinctive reaction in an emergency was to look for a compromise . |
| 22 | At the hedge marking the foot of the field I have to look for a minute to find a way through . |
| 23 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 24 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 25 | Perhaps you ought to look for a phoney . |
| 26 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 27 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 28 | Thus , for example , the unanimous response of the EEC 's governments and institutions to the Danish referendum in July 1992 was to look for a way to ‘ accommodate ’ the Danish Government , to bring the Danes back on board ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ There is a possibility that this chap will move to another university next year , but for the time being I 've had to look for a way to take the heat off . |
| 30 | He also stressed his belief that ‘ people should have the right to express their views through the ballot box , and he would continue to look for a way to give people the chance to exercise their democratic rights , ’ the department 's spokesman said . |