Example sentences of "[noun sg] to look for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While do-it-yourself rock , fan-club organizations and dancing-in-the-aisles are certainly not independent of industry interests , such a breathtaking theoretical closure reduces the musical role of the vast majority of humankind to a subservient attempt to match up , as listeners , to the demands of ‘ advanced ’ producers ; Marx 's vision of a future with every man an artist certainly seems to be definitively buried , but on a less exalted level , there is once again no attempt to look for the possibility of contradictory meanings in the actual practice of real listeners . |
| 2 | He went through to the kitchen to look for the brandy bottle . |
| 3 | A herd of cattle may seem an odd place to look for the meaning of life but it fits neatly with current American pop- psychology : no doubt these urban liberals have packed copies of Robert Bly 's ‘ Iron Jack ’ in their saddlebags . |
| 4 | Allen climbed a tall ash tree to look for the stream . |
| 5 | then there 's a tendency to look for the reason you were assaulted within yourself |
| 6 | He sees himself crossing the road — deftly , like a native , knowing exactly which way to look for the traffic . |
| 7 | Now he thought he knew the sort of case he had to deal with , and what he had read had pointed which way to look for the killer . |
| 8 | I staggered round the pump to look for the others . |