Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The to infinitive has much the same expressive effect in : ( 23 ) Certainly I looked for no such friendship as you have shown . |
| 2 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I looked for the black boots . |
| 6 | I looked for the first time straight into his moonlit eyes , and I saw Perkin the son , the husband , the one who worked with wood . |
| 7 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 8 | I looked for the knitted garments that I used to help her with but they must have all been sold . |
| 9 | She looked for the last time . |
| 10 | And forgetting , startled , she looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow forming itself . |
| 11 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He looked for a long time , then said : ‘ I can see no one , but my eyes are old . |
| 14 | He looked for a middle path . |
| 15 | He looked for a last time at Lucille . |
| 16 | HE LOOKED for the second picture , found it in one glance , and the blood shot hot to his heart . |
| 17 | While there , he looked for the first time through papers which his father , Herbert Cranko , had left : two notebooks and a number of typescripts . |
| 18 | Throwing back his head , he looked for the last time at the cloud-torn sky , and begged the Lord to watch over them and keep them safe ; and then he was gone , and all that remained was the surging waves and the cold , white crests of foam . |