Example sentences of "casting [adv prt] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Casting around for members |
| 2 | Casting around for precedents for the next move forward , he seized on Michelet 's improvisatory style , which he said put him in mind of the rough sketches of a painter . |
| 3 | With the main market for computer games ( pre-adolescent boys ) reaching saturation point , the big companies are casting around for ways to keep those sales figures healthy . |
| 4 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 5 | This sent them on their way without having to trouble too much over casting about for tracks . |
| 6 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
| 7 | If she had still been in love with Finn , Lydia would not now be casting round for ways to entertain herself . |