Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to encourage children to look for clues , and to realise that some small detail ( a crest on the side of a coach , for instance , or a sign above a shop ) may have an important bearing on the story or meaning of the picture . |
| 2 | The questions given above under " Groupwork " are intended to encourage trainees to look for evidence as to the effectiveness of the technique and the teacher 's use of it . |
| 3 | I want time to look for my children , and see how many of them I can find . |
| 4 | Police frogmen have been searching lakes looking for a weapon … believed to be a six inch blade . |
| 5 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 6 | Many bright ideas — and failed ideas looking for a second lease on life — are being put forward as ways of converting weapon-grade plutonium into a form too awkward for the weapon-minded to bother with . |
| 7 | Whether the view of science led Peirce to look for a prior epistemology , or whether the desire for , or availability of , a prior epistemology led him to think of inquiry as he did , are questions I shall not pursue here . |
| 8 | Geoffrey Miller , an independent estate agent in Tavistock , Devon , confirms this trend : ‘ There has certainly been much more activity in the market in recent months , particularly cash buyers looking for bargains . ’ |
| 9 | The Clearing System is designed to help people looking for an alternative place . |
| 10 | They have caused fear and suspicion and encouraged people to look for abuse where there is none , or to dress up actual sexual abuse of children with ‘ satanic ’ imputations . |
| 11 | ‘ But they have n't got time to look for something that was probably a mouse , ’ said Masklin . |
| 12 | It was not at all certain , then , how he would fare against the younger breed of highly professionalized butlers looking for posts . |
| 13 | ‘ We spent months looking for ideas that would appeal to us , ’ he remembers . |
| 14 | A story of a man called Texaz looking for his woman and of a girl called Sabi looking for something else . |
| 15 | I spent years looking for the answer , and what I found was somewhat unexpected . |
| 16 | there was one bloke over in erm tha you know , with a man la , that I used to work with and he , he used to fly from Hollies , and he lost his plane one day and fle , flew out of range and er he he spent weeks looking for it ! |
| 17 | A story of a man called Texaz looking for his woman and of a girl called Sabi looking for something else . |
| 18 | ‘ We have spent months looking for someone to lead our efforts , ’ he said . |
| 19 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 20 | Are they just moaning minnies looking for excuses ? |
| 21 | In the air-conditioned House of Commons , set in the English climate , and with the long recess allowing members to look for long hot beaches , such a plagiarism illustrated how not to employ catch-phrases of the day . |
| 22 | This command tells DOS to look for a match in C : \DOS , then in C : \WINDOWS and so on . |
| 23 | When Sam succumbs to the temptation of putting on the Ring he feels Sauron looking for him . |
| 24 | SEM has meant a great leap forward , allowing Harris to look for more ‘ critical diagnostic characteristics ’ on the grains . |
| 25 | So what do employers look for in graduates ? |
| 26 | This will alternate between contracts put out to tender and listing companies looking for joint ventures , partners , distributors , agents and so on . |
| 27 | What features in the rocks do geologists look for when they hope to find natural gas deposits ? |
| 28 | ‘ You do tend to get thugs looking for a fight trying to join up for my classes , that 's why you have to be very selective . ’ |
| 29 | During his biking years , Hill was often used as a despatch rider and toured businesses looking for sponsorship for his racing career . |
| 30 | Er our only problem is that some of our housing is concentrated in rather large blocks , and that does put pressure looking for v var variety of sites in the county and we are erm getting a lot of objection for some potential development sites in our area at the present moment . |