Example sentences of "look for food " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks for food . |
| 2 | Occasionally birds disturb mulches while looking for food |
| 3 | Neither he nor the exiles have done anything to help the starving people who wander the streets of the capital , Monrovia , looking for food and a future . |
| 4 | That settled , we wandered down to the river looking for food and natural wonders . |
| 5 | They wandered the savannah during the day , looking for food , and sometimes met and socialised by the lake with other groups of hominids . |
| 6 | Females , then , could have more babies than the apes could have , because they would n't have to carry them around looking for food . |
| 7 | I can not remember ever feeling hungry ; you did n't have to go looking for food , you just picked it off the trees . |
| 8 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 9 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 10 | To pick and choose which plants they were going to eat would put them at a disadvantage since they would waste so much time looking for food , rather than eating it . |
| 11 | It uses them to turn over stones when it is looking for food . |
| 12 | It has a horizontal division across its pupil which effectively gives it four eyes — the two lower halves for seeing underwater , the two upper for doing so in air — and the fish can swim along the surface looking for food above and below it at the same time . |
| 13 | Chickens were looking for food . |
| 14 | While looking for food they are careful not to eat animals or human beings . |
| 15 | A lot of their time was spent looking for food , was n't it ? |
| 16 | I think that was how they had to be , and they 'd be out in this very dangerous environment looking for food , and suddenly they 'd be aware that they 'd , the were coming . |
| 17 | The Mold Crown Court jury also heard that children would share their school dinners with him and he would go looking for food in bins . |
| 18 | That 's what I used to do with Marie — look for food they chucked away cos it was bashed up and that . |
| 19 | Healthy eaters look for food which has good nutritional quality . |
| 20 | And it looks as if this behaviour is all about encouraging the ducklings to erm , go off on their own , as it were an and to start to run off and look for food . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , if I were hungry , I mean really hungry , starving , I would look for food everywhere , would n't I ? |
| 22 | They would look for food by sending someone to a relative in a nearby village with a farm , usually entailing a trek of several days through deep snow . |
| 23 | Mussels , for instance , do not need to go to look for food , as most animals do ; the organic debris they feed upon is wafted in by the tides ( or the river estuaries ) . |
| 24 | The probable reason for a wild cat entering a house is to look for food ; but this was the lambing season with plentiful big-cat food in all directions . |
| 25 | Two men running to market to look for food had been killed at the crossroads by a sniper . |
| 26 | The Serbs struck as Bosnian families emerged from their cellars in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo to look for food . |
| 27 | On the plains , small rodents that have spent the daylight hours in the safety of their burrows , are venturing out under the cover of night to look for food . |