Example sentences of "look for [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
3 | One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand . |
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 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | They was looking for it on a list . |
10 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
11 | Well you 'll be looking for it in a bit wo n't you ? |
12 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
13 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
14 | We would alert Australia … look for him round the world . |
15 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
16 | ’ The criminals look for you amid the filth and decadence of this world , . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Look for it in the carpentry section . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
21 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
29 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |
30 | ( adv ) He looked up/the word ( looked for it in a dictionary ) . |