Example sentences of "[noun] look for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 2 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 3 | A rock journalist looking for a scoop ? |
| 4 | He was like a man who has made one step forward into unknown territory and stands looking for a path . |
| 5 | From fashion designers looking for a source of chic thrills to Sunday supplements looking to tickle their readers ' fancy , everyone has plundered the S&M scene for imagery . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 7 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 8 | Imagine a search aircraft looking for a dinghy in the middle of the ocean . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I get loads and loads of letters from teenagers looking for a career in the sport . |
| 10 | A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower . |
| 11 | They have left their homes looking for an education . |
| 12 | Police frogmen have been searching lakes looking for a weapon … believed to be a six inch blade . |
| 13 | The streets were full of theatre-goers , tourists and buskers and ticket touts looking for the tourist theatre-goer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 17 | Toll charges for lorries using the Severn Bridge went up by more than 100% 3 weeks ago and road experts believe traffic in Gloucestershire may have gone up by as much as a third as drivers look for a detour . |
| 18 | Bessey was sceptical of the whole approach as little more than revived natural history , and , in order to convince him that scientific ecology was possible , Clements and Pound looked for a method of quantifying their studies . |
| 19 | Men like Jeremiah and Ezekiel looked for the day when God would forge a new covenant , or agreement , with men . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 22 | Everything he said or wrote was calculated for posterity , in her view , he sounded like a sheaf of notes looking for a history book . |
| 23 | I know this after a dispiriting tour of San Francisco looking for a place to eat at 10 pm . |
| 24 | When Heathcliff went out to look for our horses , Cathy and I hurried round the kitchen looking for a way to escape . |
| 25 | It can be extremely frustrating spending many hours looking for a home , finding one you like and that you can afford , and then having your mortgage application turned down . |
| 26 | ‘ When we got there I drove round and round for hours looking for the hotel , ’ Markus said . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Finlayson followed Woolley all around the squadron looking for a chance to get his own back . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |