Example sentences of "go [adv prt] look for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Science has got to go on looking for knowledge . |
| 2 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 3 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 4 | In the frightening new craze , youths take a cocktail of drink and drugs before going out to look for trouble . |
| 5 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 6 | The researcher goes out looking for respondents who conform to the quota requirements , either by knocking on doors or by asking people in the street to participate : it must be stressed that the point is not to interview everyone who happens to live on the street or who happens to pass by , but only those who conform to the quota controls and in the proportions specified . |
| 7 | But I do n't want to go around looking for candidates like we did last time . |
| 8 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 9 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 10 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 11 | Has it gone off to look for Buck ? ’ |
| 12 | You remember I said I went off looking for Nicola ? ’ |
| 13 | He threw it in the trolley and went off to look for things Elinor did n't like . |
| 14 | And she went off to look for Moominpappa to ask him to put up two more beds — very , very small ones . |
| 15 | Sir Wilfrid went off to look for Tobermory . |
| 16 | He went off to look for coffee . |
| 17 | Every year after the three-hours service on Good Friday , in which we choir boys were divided into three groups to lead the singing of the hymns , each group for an hour , a number of villagers went off to look for primroses in the hedgerows and woods . |
| 18 | . As I said , people go out looking for stress . |