Example sentences of "[noun] look for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 2 | The streets were full of theatre-goers , tourists and buskers and ticket touts looking for the tourist theatre-goer . |
| 3 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 4 | While do-it-yourself rock , fan-club organizations and dancing-in-the-aisles are certainly not independent of industry interests , such a breathtaking theoretical closure reduces the musical role of the vast majority of humankind to a subservient attempt to match up , as listeners , to the demands of ‘ advanced ’ producers ; Marx 's vision of a future with every man an artist certainly seems to be definitively buried , but on a less exalted level , there is once again no attempt to look for the possibility of contradictory meanings in the actual practice of real listeners . |
| 5 | Men like Jeremiah and Ezekiel looked for the day when God would forge a new covenant , or agreement , with men . |
| 6 | This year 's freeze , the first reasonable winter conditions in years , tempted Mick , a trained geologist , to ferret around in his stock of Ordnance Survey maps looking for the word ‘ waterfall ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ When we got there I drove round and round for hours looking for the hotel , ’ Markus said . |
| 8 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 9 | She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted . |
| 10 | The test looks for the presence of these antibodies . |
| 11 | But she did n't know where it was either and soon the whole family was up on their feet looking for the source of the noise . |
| 12 | you know what I 've just got , erm , if I go this way , cos I bet you Sarah 's up at erm fucking window looking for the car going by |
| 13 | He went through to the kitchen to look for the brandy bottle . |
| 14 | It 's not unusual — kids from the northern cities growing a racial conscience along with their back teeth , inventing something called Real America , hanging round the reservations looking for the spirits of someone 's goddamn ancestors . |
| 15 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 16 | Staff had spent most of Friday afternoon and evening looking for the child and the owner , Alan Tym , had gone back again late that night to double check that James had not crawled behind a counter or into a cupboard and fallen asleep . |
| 17 | While many people dabbled , it 's a little known fact even in cave diving circles , that Geoff Yeadon , often diving alone , logged over 18,000 metres of diving looking for the King Pot inlet . |
| 18 | I spent years looking for the answer , and what I found was somewhat unexpected . |
| 19 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
| 20 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |
| 21 | A herd of cattle may seem an odd place to look for the meaning of life but it fits neatly with current American pop- psychology : no doubt these urban liberals have packed copies of Robert Bly 's ‘ Iron Jack ’ in their saddlebags . |
| 22 | Zacks Investment Research in Chicago looked for The Economist at 27 analysts ' recommendations on Philip Morris before April 2nd . |
| 23 | One of the men said : ‘ Vanessa , is n't your policeman looking for the man who killed Rain 's boss ? ’ |
| 24 | But Hooper has earned a reprieve with Liverpool looking for the solidity and assurance he showed in last year 's UEFA Cup battle with Italian club Genoa . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're certain the UFF identifies a car used by the target , then they drive through nationalist areas in the city late at night looking for the car . |
| 26 | They arrived in Liverpool after an uneventful railway journey and for the second time in three months Cam walked along the dock wall looking for the Langdale ; but now there was confidence in his stride and eagerness in his face . |
| 27 | I was recently down at my local stationers looking for the projector pens when I spotted a pack of ‘ Berol Washable Juniors ’ . |
| 28 | ( You can still buy one cheap in the car park round the corner from Victoria as they 're auctioned off by young Ozzers looking for the fare home . ) |
| 29 | Allen climbed a tall ash tree to look for the stream . |
| 30 | Tabitha looked for the man . |