Example sentences of "looked for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 2 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 3 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 4 | Local builders looked for a cheap and plentiful source of sand to make concrete blocks after Portland cement came into use , and the excavation tips were close at hand . |
| 5 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 6 | Desperately he looked for a way up the river bank . |
| 7 | But in this case the enlightened engineer was concerned to do precisely the opposite , and as the digger pulled back the rubble , he exposed an area of wall which looked for a moment as if it was made entirely of shiny cream bones . |
| 8 | The new cars were a sensation when they first appeared , passengers let old cars pass in order to ride on them , and upon entering removed their hats and looked for a door mat ! |
| 9 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 10 | I recalled those days at school and looked for a sympathetic response . |
| 11 | Dear old Martha had much of the milk of human kindness about her ; she had pensioners who shared with her such things as she had : one was a lame robin redbreast , who came and sat on a bush opposite the door till he was fed ; another was a pigeon whose cot was quite a mile away : she too looked for a meal on every visit , and after gathering her crop-full , would wing her flight over the fields and houses home to her cot . |
| 12 | Uwe Otten , H.P. Lorenz and F. Busiger of the University of Basel and Hoffmann-La Roche looked for a possible connection with the protein nerve growth factor ( NGF ) . |
| 13 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
| 14 | Anyone who looked for a way out of stopping short of the tunnel of relentless worry could telephone Simon Johnson , manager of the Housing Debtline . |
| 15 | I looked for a body , but could n't find one . |
| 16 | Once behind the closed door of the dressing room we looked for a way out , but there was n't one . |
| 17 | I stood in the gloaming for the longest 30 seconds of my life while someone looked for a light switch . |
| 18 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 19 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 20 | Nevertheless he insisted that , at least until they were over Esk , they must all stay together ; they owed that to the Border men and indeed all who looked for a share in the spoil . |
| 21 | He looked for a middle path . |
| 22 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 23 | For filtration I looked for a Fluval 303 . |
| 24 | I realise that they looked for a family atmosphere , but is imposing this solution in such an arbitrary way really in the best interests of the game ? |
| 25 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 26 | He looked for a milestone , but none was in sight . |
| 27 | He looked for a last time at Lucille . |
| 28 | The driver looked for a sign , and found : |
| 29 | We looked for a place to sit . |
| 30 | The model was finished in 1794 and Murdock looked for a testing ground . |