Example sentences of "[pron] look for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 2 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |
| 3 | We look for a quiet , dark place , and we do it in the car . ’ |
| 4 | Roger Gamlin of Amtrak Express Parcels explains : ‘ We look for a sales-oriented person with the ability to gain new customers . |
| 5 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 6 | Billy suggested they look for a shady spot for the picnic in the covert they were approaching . |
| 7 | On the one hand , people look for a low instalment amount ( which of course tends to mean a relatively long repayment period ) ; on the other , they look for a short repayment period ( which tends to mean a relatively high instalment amount ) . |