Example sentences of "look for [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 2 | looking for one for the |
| 3 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 4 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 5 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 6 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 7 | He was looking for something along the lines of Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy , an American from nowhere , and all the actors coming in were doing an Andrew Dice Clay or Billy Idol number . |
| 8 | He says we 've had wide and varied enquiries — especially from London-based purchasers looking for something for the weekend — something he can tell his friends ’ Well actually I live in a turreted folly in the Cotswolds ! ’ … |
| 9 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 10 | A stocky male figure entered from a room at the rear and began looking for something beneath the counter . |
| 11 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 12 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 13 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 14 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 15 | So far , I have a car driver and a motor cyclist and I 'm looking for someone for the bus and train , and possibly taxi . |
| 16 | I would be looking for someone like the Beresfords ' youngest daughter — innocence , childlike freshness and beauty . ’ |
| 17 | We would alert Australia … look for him round the world . |
| 18 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 19 | ’ The criminals look for you amid the filth and decadence of this world , . |
| 20 | Having found the appropriate class number from the card , look for it in the subject or classified catalogue and flick through the cards of that particular number . |
| 21 | Look for it in the carpentry section . |
| 22 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 23 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 24 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 25 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 26 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 27 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 28 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 29 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 30 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |