Example sentences of "[not/n't] look for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare said , ‘ I 'm not looking for Prince Charming . |
| 2 | ‘ But we are peaceful people and we are not looking for revenge . |
| 3 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 4 | God is not looking for ability , but availability . |
| 5 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not looking for commitment ! ’ |
| 7 | I 'm not looking for attention . |
| 8 | But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity . |
| 9 | ‘ We are not looking for domination , but equality , ’ he said , again demanding that Sinn Fein must be included in political talks . |
| 10 | Three of the four students not looking for employment and without plans to continue their studies would be travelling overseas for a time before commencing job search . |
| 11 | She ca n't remember any but there again you were she were n't looking for green . |
| 12 | First release will either be the atmospheric ‘ Tomorrow 's Day ’ , or the livelier ‘ It 's Like This ’ but — despite attention from major labels — Reborn are n't looking for overkill . |
| 13 | ‘ You were n't looking for gold , were you ? ’ |
| 14 | I was n't looking for trouble . |
| 15 | Little was known , either , about the families of fourteen children taken into care in Aberdeen at around the same time as those in Ayrshire ; they did n't look for publicity , speak to the press or generate such wide interest and public concern . |
| 16 | ‘ My dear ma'am , I assure you I do n't look for matrimony . |
| 17 | But please do n't look for System Professional in the shops . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ I thought — any man would have thought — that if I did n't look for knowledge , good family , and wealth in a wife , if I sacrificed all that , I would be sure of finding a country girl who was at least pure … but … but I should not accuse you . ’ |
| 19 | Now , I , I , I do n't , I do n't look for trouble , you know me |
| 20 | He had never seen her mother or her aunt so he could n't look for family resemblances . |