Example sentences of "look for [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’
2 He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking .
3 They 're looking for him on the moors . ’
4 Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands .
5 The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution .
6 During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air .
7 ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned .
8 We would alert Australia … look for him round the world .
9 Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper .
10 ’ The criminals look for you amid the filth and decadence of this world , .
11 Having found the appropriate class number from the card , look for it in the subject or classified catalogue and flick through the cards of that particular number .
12 Look for it in the carpentry section .
13 That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later .
14 We told him to look for us in the evening .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving .
18 Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry .
19 She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk .
20 They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station .
21 ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’
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