Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] look for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we got there I drove round and round for hours looking for the hotel , ’ Markus said . |
| 2 | Thing is the how these people go week after week after week looking for a bargain , I mean , Christm , I mean we picked up some bargains today , but how you can go week , I mean its ok , yes , why your but when your Christmas shopping you ca n't |
| 3 | I mean , if I sort of just stay for a , for a while but er I 've still keep looking for work looking for a job cos I do wan na get away from B T. |
| 4 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 5 | Do you remember looking over the ship 's side at the flying fish , and the phosphorus gleaming along the side of the ship at night — and of course looking for the Southern Cross in the stars at night ? |
| 6 | Everything he said or wrote was calculated for posterity , in her view , he sounded like a sheaf of notes looking for a history book . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The following example program segment reads through a list of names looking for the name in " name$ . |
| 9 | Friends clamoured to escape the trauma of walking endlessly up and down Glasgow 's Byres Road with a bottle of Hirondelle looking for a party to gatecrash , and so these Hogmanay house parties swelled in numbers yearly until the queue for the bathroom in the morning rivalled McDonald 's in Red Square . |
| 10 | I put him though the hoops because there are all sorts of people looking for a dog for the wrong reason . |
| 11 | People strolled past without giving him a second look — couples hand in hand , families with pushchairs , groups of friends looking for a good spot to picnic . |
| 12 | Three years ago she had just recently left college , one of thousands of graduates looking for a job . |
| 13 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 14 | The Conservative selection board was designed to bring the candidates ' list into the latter half of the twentieth century by including more industrialists , more women , more representatives of ethnic minorities , and reducing the number of barristers looking for a congenial second career . |
| 15 | It 's like lemmings looking for a cliff . ’ |
| 16 | He wandered along the brighter corridors near Nettles looking for a good place to plant his seeds . |
| 17 | Sailing as corporate hospitality took off about a decade ago , with companies looking for a new way of hosting events . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 20 | At night the harbour lights up and the atmosphere becomes electric as the streets of Aghios Nikolaos fill up with people looking for a good time in the restaurants , bars and discos . |
| 21 | Pippa Raudsepp , residential mortgage manager with independent financial advisers London & Country Mortgages , said : ‘ For people looking for a new mortgage the rates are quite good . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I get loads and loads of letters from teenagers looking for a career in the sport . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 24 | But Scarlet was too far gone in disenchantment to look for a bright side . |
| 25 | Zacks Investment Research in Chicago looked for The Economist at 27 analysts ' recommendations on Philip Morris before April 2nd . |
| 26 | Manufacturers in plastics looking for a new aquatic widget are invited to contact Iwan Davies for details of his O 2 Enhancer which he has designed to spread water more effectively over trickle filter media . |
| 27 | Jim Blackie , 41 , remembers catching the bus from his home in Gateshead every Friday night to go to the Oxford in the Sixties ‘ Everybody used to walk around in circles looking for a girl . |
| 28 | Appetites were whetted among those working on the Tron project and a host of computer animation specialists sprang up in California looking for a piece of the Hollywood action . |
| 29 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 30 | He circulated two new rumours a day : cholera was sweeping Paris ; the Kaiser was in Rome looking for a divorce ; the kitchen was putting aphrodisiacs in the gravy ; Lloyd George had been charged with rape ; Switzerland had invaded Germany . |