Example sentences of "[verb] to look for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes seek out the inhabitants fleeing distracted , or returning to look for the dead . |
| 2 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 3 | They are taught to look for the common signs of preparation that precede offences . |
| 4 | So we agreed to look for a new approach " . |
| 5 | Therefore , they tend to look for a certain ‘ type ’ . |
| 6 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 7 | Also , he was not going to accept it , he was going to look for a real motive for this murder . |
| 8 | Meredith was surprised he always had to look for a hidden motive . |
| 9 | When everything around you is just plain bloody crazy , you 've got to look for the crazy answers . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd stayed to look for the aristocratic drop-out . |
| 11 | ‘ I like to look for the distinctive features of a location , features that we can key into to get a synergy of strengths , ’ she says . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | Eventually , they entered London , and Noah began to look for a quiet , cheap pub where they could spend the night . |
| 19 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’ |
| 21 | The long-standing US-Japan Cooperative Earthquake Research Program , which the National Science Foundation and the Japanese government pay for , decided to look for a cheaper way of doing things . |
| 22 | Oxfordshire Health Authority admits its having to look for a two million pound saving under the Government 's Health Reforms . |
| 23 | ‘ I went to look for a new car and the Lord said to me , ‘ Richie , you buy this car . |
| 24 | Sub-Prior Richard , a kindly soul even to those for whom he had no particular liking , grew anxious , and went to look for the stray , and found him on his bed in the dortoir , pallid and shivering , pleading sickness and looking pinched , grey and cold . |
| 25 | ‘ He chose to look for the spiritual through the physical , like Rimbaud and Kerouac . |
| 26 | normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you 're driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of + stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it 's just a + a series of + colours which + they seem to be separate but if you try to look for the separate ( kAz ) — colours they always seem + very hard + to separate + if you see what I mean ++ ( Postgraduate student speaking informally ) |
| 27 | The Germans did not even bother to look for the escaped I prisoners . |
| 28 | We learned to look for the black tongue , water that would take us between rocks . |
| 29 | His activities in the Peloponnese may have been provocatively anti-Spartan ( p. 25 ) ; in any event , he was forced to look for a permanent home in the king 's Asia . |
| 30 | But given that Poidevin turned 33 just days before the World Cup final , will the national selectors prefer to look for a long-term leadership continuity as both Australia and England did when appointing Farr-Jones and Will Carling respectively ? |