Example sentences of "[pers pn] look for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | By now some may well be asking ‘ Where can I look for a spiritual director ? |
| 5 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 6 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 7 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 8 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 9 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | We look for a quiet , dark place , and we do it in the car . ’ |
| 12 | Roger Gamlin of Amtrak Express Parcels explains : ‘ We look for a sales-oriented person with the ability to gain new customers . |
| 13 | Billy suggested they look for a shady spot for the picnic in the covert they were approaching . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 16 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 17 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 18 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 19 | He looked for a long time , then said : ‘ I can see no one , but my eyes are old . |
| 20 | He looked for a middle path . |
| 21 | He looked for a last time at Lucille . |
| 22 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 23 | Perhaps i i it 'll encourage us to look for a shorter route through to the , the , the solution . |