Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] look for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine that you 're a complete beginner looking for a versatile sewing machine for dressmaking , soft furnishings and embroidery . |
| 2 | Paul Newman plays The Kid as a social outcast looking for a father figure . |
| 3 | For an instant she was a primitive creature looking for a hole to hide in . |
| 4 | Thus a HIGH OR EQUAL comparison condition will be used to search a blocked file looking for a given record . |
| 5 | The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning , two miles away from post number seven , is irrelevant . |
| 6 | ‘ I certainly would n't like to be a young person looking for a job in advertising this year , ’ comments John Fanning . |
| 7 | There are situations where an important stimulus is absent and the animal can not find it ; for example , a young animal looking for a teat when there is no teat around . |
| 8 | One night I was there , before the start of the film , a young man leaped onto the stage and announced that he was an unemployed actor looking for a role in a movie . |
| 9 | Miss Picon 's other major postwar success was on Broadway , in the musical Milk and Honey ( 1961 ) , as an American widow looking for a husband in Israel . |