Example sentences of "[vb past] look for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |
| 3 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 4 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 5 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 6 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 7 | Mike , however , had travelled north , leaving his pregnant girlfriend with relatives in the safety of a Harare suburb as he went looking for another war . |
| 8 | But I stopped myself , and went to look for another hiding place . |
| 9 | ‘ Under the power of melting grief ’ , immediately after her death he wrote , ‘ my dear wife did look for good in me , and more help in me than she found , especially lately in my weakness and decay . |
| 10 | Now we did look for better things . |
| 11 | Even in cases in the past , where he had looked for one and found none , he had always felt if he had searched harder or been luckier , then the answer would have been found . |
| 12 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 13 | Vico had looked for historical fact in the poetic metaphors of myth and legend ; this piecing together was his ‘ new science ’ . |
| 14 | Many years before we had looked for red kites , on a spring camping holiday in the valley of the River Tywi . |
| 15 | Certainly the Americans continued to look for alternative strategies , both to raise the nuclear threshold and ( because they felt the Europeans left them too few military options ) to ensure that small nuclear weapons could still be used for war-fighting . |
| 16 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 17 | erm We had to look for some lower riders and erm Tony Primmer of course comes in at four , which helps us immensely . |
| 18 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |