Example sentences of "[pers pn] look for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look for listlessness , restlessness — anything abnormal . |
| 2 | I look for Rice Krispies . |
| 3 | I look for medium and long-term planning , not the short-termism that we have seen too often , and I shall happily support the amendment . |
| 4 | With rushing eagerness I look for calm — to the ocean , not its nervous surface and its frayed edges , but the hidden depth to which everything is eventually returned . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've still a way to go but I look for improvement all the time and our start this season has shown just that . ’ |
| 6 | As a young player I look for subtlety and skill , not big top spin shots all the time . |
| 7 | When I look for Truth , Ahimsa says ‘ Find it through me' ’ . ' |
| 8 | So it is to them , the creators of American literature , that I look for clarification about the invention and effect of Africanism in the United States . |
| 9 | When this happens , the first place I look for trouble is at the sinker posts . |
| 10 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 11 | I looked for respite at the catalogue . |
| 12 | When , on the third morning I looked for Athman to say goodbye to him , he was nowhere to be found and I had to leave without seeing him again . |
| 13 | So as night fell I looked for information elsewhere . |
| 14 | Now we have a society where some people — young and old — cling with belief to the system 's formal structures , while others just drift with them looking for fun , ease , comfort , and ultimately a way out . |
| 15 | ‘ Luke came to me looking for work , and we sealed the bargain with egg sandwiches . |
| 16 | The advertisement pages of The Scotsman in the golden Edwardian afternoon carried long columns of vacancies for parlourmaids , cooks and housemaids ( so it is not surprising , though it must have been a source of irritation , that male printers hostile to women entering the trade often urged them to look for work " in service " ) . |
| 17 | Their father , Oliver P. Bernard , the theatre designer who had worked at Covent Garden and the Boston Opera House and who had also designed Art Deco interiors for Lyons restaurants , had died insolvent , thereby terminating his sons ' education and obliging them to look for work . |
| 18 | Without patronage , however , political interests withered in time , for the needs of the voters would drive them to look for aid elsewhere if there did not seem a reasonable probability that their present connections might recover their lost influence in London . |
| 19 | For example , some historians have argued that Methodism and other non-conformist sects were deliberately encouraged by employers in the nineteenth century in order to placate the workers and persuade them to look for salvation in the next world rather than in this . |
| 20 | Sarah ( Lori Cardille ) is also a scientist , but she looks for understanding — without success . |
| 21 | Flavia said bravely , ‘ She looks for virtue in those she loves . |
| 22 | Are you looking for sex , or just someone to talk to ? |
| 23 | Those of you looking for adventure can shoot the rapids , Indiana Jones style , on the thrilling Congo River Rapids . |
| 24 | What you looking for love ? |
| 25 | Is she looking for reassurance , sympathy or what ? |
| 26 | Can you look for promotion , a better salary scale , a higher grade ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Do you look for reason in madness ? ’ asked Merymose . |
| 28 | Some advisers suggest that you look to past precedents within the company ; others recommend that you gear your expectations to the financial sum that you expect to require in order to exist in reasonable comfort until another job comes along ; others simply suggest that you look for payment of a year 's full salary . |
| 29 | Never keep callers waiting while you look for information or try to transfer them , etc. , without explaining what you are doing and giving them a chance to call back if they are in a hurry or if they are calling long-distance . |
| 30 | That 's what you look for , you see , you look for corcus races really and while conflict is perfectly real , and no question of that , but it tremendously easily becomes pathological and gets out of hand and a good deal of social organization consists really and how do you erm in a sense how do you keep people and societies from falling over these cliffs ? |