Example sentences of "[verb] look for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Ryan has looked for a rapprochement between deconstruction and Marxism . |
| 2 | But apparently no one else has looked for a phage that might produce such a toxin . |
| 3 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 4 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 5 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 6 | Kate obtains a copy of Sheila Kitzinger 's The New Good Birth Guide and Gordon Bourne 's Pregnancy and starts looking for a hospital that gets two stars and is nearby . |
| 7 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 8 | So if you want to look for a short-term , meaning 18 months , competitive battle that will be the most interesting , the server battle between NT and NetWare will be a major area of competition . ’ |
| 9 | So if you want to look for a short-term , meaning 18 months , competitive battle that will be the most interesting , the server battle between NT and NetWare will be a major area of competition , ’ he said . |
| 10 | So they will need to look for a company that is reliable and responsible over a long term , and offers a variety of ancillary services . ’ |
| 11 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 12 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 13 | I moved to look for the girl . |
| 14 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 15 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 16 | All it needed was someone to go looking for the jack , find their hands curling round them and start asking why … |
| 17 | The Andes is obviously a good place to go looking for an eruption of an andesite lava , but one would be extremely lucky to find one , because although there are numerous ‘ active ’ volcanoes along the Andean chain , andesite eruptions are really rather rare events compared to basaltic ones . |
| 18 | ‘ Knox goes looking for a fight , but Steve likes it that way . |
| 19 | And if she 's called round she goes looking for a cardigan or something on . |
| 20 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 21 | One matron declared that if Ms Wilikins-the accent was on the Ms — came looking for a seat in Camberley she would receive short shrift . |
| 22 | Christine and Tony had decided to look for a girl of about 2 , since they felt a baby would be too much to cope with and a 2- year-old could accompany Christine to nursery school . |
| 23 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
| 24 | His greatest wall had been built when Mr Fractor came to look for a book on logarithms . |
| 25 | And you know the only reason you 've got a hang over and you know there is n't really any body else to blame but yourself , but that makes you want to look for a scape-goat , but the kid . |
| 26 | On Oct. 28 , Azerbaijan 's President Abulfaz Elchibey agreed to look for a compromise candidate for interior minister . |
| 27 | He said he was going to look for a radiator at a scrap yard somewhere passed Akers Way . |
| 28 | And she 's going to look for a flat somewhere else of course |
| 29 | And there was a point where I was going to look for a job , drift off and forget about it . |
| 30 | ‘ There is a possibility that this chap will move to another university next year , but for the time being I 've had to look for a way to take the heat off . |