Example sentences of "[vb past] look for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 2 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 3 | I moved to look for the girl . |
| 4 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 5 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 6 | One matron declared that if Ms Wilikins-the accent was on the Ms — came looking for a seat in Camberley she would receive short shrift . |
| 7 | His greatest wall had been built when Mr Fractor came to look for a book on logarithms . |
| 8 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
| 9 | So we agreed to look for a new approach " . |
| 10 | On Oct. 28 , Azerbaijan 's President Abulfaz Elchibey agreed to look for a compromise candidate for interior minister . |
| 11 | Coleridge and Sara fixed their wedding for early October , and in the meantime began looking for a home . |
| 12 | Sara began to look for a cup . |
| 13 | She began to look for a university job outside Cambridge . |
| 14 | But , in the summer of 1945 , he took a furnished room in Kensington and began to look for a suitable and convenient residence of his own . |
| 15 | The March Hare poured a little hot tea on its nose , and the Hatter began to look for a clean plate . |
| 16 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 17 | So I began to look for a husband . |
| 18 | Eventually , they entered London , and Noah began to look for a quiet , cheap pub where they could spend the night . |
| 19 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 20 | He began to look for a job . |
| 21 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 22 | Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in . |
| 23 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 24 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 25 | Stan began to look for the even rarer amphibians . |
| 26 | Sotheby 's began to look for an escape route : they could not risk the picture 's returning to the market and failing to hold its theoretical value . |
| 27 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 28 | Sue Hill was 35 when she started looking for a job nearly two years ago . |
| 29 | The second day he started looking for a house to rent . |
| 30 | We started looking for the hole in the long summer holidays . |