Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] look for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete nodded and moved off to look for some more of Bob Ivie 's jungle juice , and Diane eased her way through into the ballroom . |
| 2 | Santerre has proved to be a most loyal subject of the King but Hopkins served him as a chaplain and Buckingham came here looking for those relics . ’ |
| 3 | Peeling the shit-stained newspaper from the bottom of the cage , I emptied out the accumulated guano and went off to look for some fresh newspaper . |
| 4 | She was as surprised as he was , and went off to look for some servants . |
| 5 | Could n't tell unless I went back to look for spent arrows , which I was n't going to do . |
| 6 | No wonder he went back to look for more . ’ |
| 7 | Third , and of more practical importance , we now knew where to look for any further changes ; by being able to concentrate on IMHV and LPO and discard ‘ irrelevant ’ tissue we might hope to magnify any effect we were studying by diminishing background noise . |
| 8 | One hour later I had recovered consciousness , was lying drugged and bloodless in my bed , and my father had gone out with the shotgun he owned then to look for Old Saul . |
| 9 | The opportunities of individual patronage may have been reduced , but few major writers from the time of Gay and Swift to that of George Crabbe did not look for such patronage or shape some composition toward the expectations of a patron . |
| 10 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 11 | In the survey , an unemployed person is defined as anyone aged fifteen and over who was not employed during the week before the interview and who had actually looked for full-time or part-time work . |
| 12 | He set about looking for new sites . |