Example sentences of "[verb] around for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 2 | Looking around for a possible light , we noticed an elderly couple smoking at a nearby tables . |
| 3 | This year the charity to benefit will be the Newborn Appeal , although the organising Speke 10k Committee are still looking around for a main sponsor for the event . |
| 4 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 5 | The more the Major Government is seen to be drifting and accident prone , the more people scan around for a strong helmsman . |
| 6 | Searching around for a related but cooperative proposition that B might be intending to convey , we arrive at the opposite , or negation , of what B has stated namely that Britain does n't rule the seas , and thus by way of Relevance to the prior utterance , the suggestion that there is nothing that Britain could do . |
| 7 | Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance . |
| 8 | Shop around for a recommended one , or ask the training or personnel department for advice . |
| 9 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 10 | She squirmed around for a better view of it . |
| 11 | Jill returned in the spring of 1974 and was told to look around for a suitable site . |
| 12 | He 'll be busy , and I 'll have to walk around for a whole hour on my own . |
| 13 | The disk will whizz around for a few seconds , and then you get the rows of statistics . |
| 14 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 15 | ‘ Stormed around for a few days , lobbied as hard as I could and got on with my job . |
| 16 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 17 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 18 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 19 | She looked around for a blunt instrument . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , everyone looked around for a similar opportunity . |
| 21 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 22 | Charles looked around for a suitable candidate and nudged , no doubt , by a couple of doting grandmothers , found Lady Diana Spencer . |
| 23 | He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge . |
| 24 | He felt much the same sensation now as he searched around for a fresh foothold . |
| 25 | Casting around for a suitable envoy to go out to Australia on behalf of a contrite British government , the choice fell on Major Julian Layton , an active promoter of the refugee cause whose experience encompassed several weeks on the Isle of Man liaising with the civil administration . |
| 26 | Skinner , who ticked me off yesterday for suggesting his vote had fallen , is off after 14 years , leaving my colleagues on the Sun distraught and casting around for a new NEC contact . |
| 27 | The news when Rain reached the office was that Tavett was again being questioned by the police ; there were insistent rumours of a row between Maureen and Barron ; the freedom of speech people were muttering obscenities because their latest attempt at a cartoon had been rejected ; and the Patriotic Ten were casting around for a fresh mind to help them get their statement into publishable form . |
| 28 | Casting around for a safe topic , she remembered that she had not introduced herself . |
| 29 | ‘ We ca n't afford to have people lingering around for a recuperative holiday … |