Example sentences of "[pron] look for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look for the island , kidding myself |
| 2 | I look for the dog or the jogging suit and if they have n't got a dog or a jogging suit I think what are they up to ? |
| 3 | I tend not to read long interviews with top celebs , as much to avoid discovering that they are dickheads as anything else , so I look for the news , gossip and reviews . |
| 4 | Relieved to be out in the open again , I looked for the route up onto the giant hump of Rhossili Down above the village . |
| 5 | I looked for the name of yoof goddess Janet Street-Porter on the credits . |
| 6 | I looked for the bolt of the gun desperately , ham-fisted with the unfamiliar weapon . |
| 7 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 8 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 9 | A little light patter while she looks for the file . |
| 10 | Are you looking for the interaction where you learn something about the culture from talking to the people or do you want minimal interaction where simply you visit a place , and you stay in your little bubble or ghetto with people of your own tour company , you do everything together and you never come into contact with local people . |
| 11 | Yeah but yo , that 's what they did change , you looking for the fault ? |
| 12 | A page of horoscopes caught her eye ; she looked for the archer , and read : |
| 13 | She looked for the yacht but another boat was on the mooring it had used . |
| 14 | She looked for the Daurog , but they had gone — or so she thought . |
| 15 | She looked for the room and , finding it , knocked on the door . |
| 16 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 17 | If we look for the fashion that 's the veneer , it 's the meaning that 's the more important . |
| 18 | I 'll keep the boy close by me when we look for the treasure ; then , when we have both ship and treasure , we 'll persuade Jim to join us , and give him some of the treasure for all his help . ’ |
| 19 | We look for the parrot . |
| 20 | We spoke in earlier chapters of people 's search for meaning as they look for the person who has died , and saw that at such times a sortie into faith healing or clairvoyance is quite common . |
| 21 | I think it 's they look for the number of stamps used rather if it 's what you |
| 22 | So they looked for the form and they could n't find it . |
| 23 | Anyone looking for the window frame should get in touch with me , ’ he said . |
| 24 | In 1980 the CDP was talking of CNAA ‘ dogmatism ’ , and in suggesting the establishment of a liaison body with the CNAA it looked for the establishment of a ‘ special relationship ’ . |
| 25 | He looked for the gamekeeper from the villa among the group of men in dark suits and flat caps who stood talking between the plastic flower stall and the van selling salted fish , but he was n't able to spot him . |
| 26 | He looked for the pole Star on nights so intensely black that you almost had to touch your limbs to make sure they were still there . |
| 27 | He looked for the time . |
| 28 | In Fleming 's time , most bacteriologists would simply have thrown the spoiled culture away , but he looked for the cause . |
| 29 | Then he arose in fear , and called for light , and it was brought him ; and he looked for the leper and could see nothing ; so he returned into the bed , leaving the light burning . |