Example sentences of "look for [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 2 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 3 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 5 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Look for it in the carpentry section . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |