Example sentences of "[vb -s] out for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |
| 2 | It is a situation which cries out for centralised resolution of the type the large commercial organisation can impose . |
| 3 | Do you think that there is even a sort of ‘ them and us ’ attitude , a feeling that the arts world is an ever open maw that cries out for endless sums of money and that the proper business of government is to resist ? |
| 4 | The scale of injustice , cruelty , and tyranny in the world in 1988 cries out for continuing protest of various forms including the democratic and peaceful marches and assemblies which in the 1960s helped to achieve greater civil rights in the USA and in many other nations , whilst the same phenomenon , sometimes more disorderly , hastened the end of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War . |
| 5 | In The Written Language Bias in Linguistics ( 1982 ) he lays out for fellow linguists the detailed ways in which that bias has , he believes , affected their theory . |
| 6 | More impressive still was the menu in the college dining-room , something which the salivating Mutahhar singles out for special praise : ‘ Pheasants , partridges , herons , fish , roasted fowl , grilled kids , fried loaves , brightly-coloured sweets of different kinds and other good things were heaped everywhere in large quantities . ’ |
| 7 | comes out for tender . |
| 8 | Bob Dylan comes out for ultra-right Pat Buchanan |
| 9 | Mr Hann came across Mr Ford through the investigative work he carries out for financial institutions . |