Example sentences of "[prep] look for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he out looking for the bastards who stole my father ? ’ |
| 2 | She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it . |
| 3 | Most of these are well beyond binocular range , but it is worth looking for the ‘ Black-Eye ’ galaxy M64 , which is within a degree of the star 35 Comæ , not far from Alpha . |
| 4 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 5 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 6 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 7 | It 's just a case of looking for the body really . |
| 8 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 9 | But looking into the future , well , that 's like looking for the bottom of the river , is n't it ? |
| 10 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 11 | Once again , the Regional Arts Association will know the leading amateur companies in your area , and this should certainly help you in looking for the kind of group to which you are best suited . |
| 12 | There is a joy in looking for the kindly and generous action in the daily round ; a kindly smile from some ordinary person whose responses have not been blighted by desire or greed or envy . |
| 13 | While he persists in looking for the golden egg before the chicken is even hatched the terrorists will continue to exact a mounting price in blood for his dithering approach to security . |
| 14 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 15 | Vivien is not alone in thinking that the European professionals are making a mistake in looking for the same privileges and superstar treatment that is nowadays meted out to their American sisters . |
| 16 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 17 | In looking for the means to undermine Chomsky 's position , generative semanticists were then attracted to a considerable body of philosophical thought devoted to showing the importance of the uses of language to an understanding of its nature ( work by Austin , Strawson , Grice and Searle in particular ) . |
| 18 | Okay so if you can learn to concentrate on looking for the patterns and looking for , Oh well what sort of word is this , is it going to end in a K end in c sound so it 'll be C K. |
| 19 | British customers have got used to looking for the date stamp on goods so that they can identify the ‘ life ’ of a product . |
| 20 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 21 | And the first one said , ‘ Who 's gon na look for the money ? ’ ) |
| 22 | Giardia infection can be diagnosed by looking for the parasite in the stools . |
| 23 | And now you can easily spot the best quality Scottish salmon by looking for the tartan Brand Quality Mark . |
| 24 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 25 | The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones , and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes . |
| 26 | Cut costs by looking for the sign Zimmer if you want bed and breakfast in a private house . |
| 27 | It is entered by looking for the entrance : by looking for opportunity . |
| 28 | At one-hour weekly meetings , the team started the process by looking for the symptoms of the problem , which meant pulling together all the relevant facts . |
| 29 | Check that the jacket has been made to the current British Standard by looking for the label with the " Kitemark " symbol . |
| 30 | So the least I could do was to get out and around looking for the guy . |