Example sentences of "[vb past] to look for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 2 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 3 | I moved to look for the girl . |
| 4 | His greatest wall had been built when Mr Fractor came to look for a book on logarithms . |
| 5 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
| 6 | On Oct. 28 , Azerbaijan 's President Abulfaz Elchibey agreed to look for a compromise candidate for interior minister . |
| 7 | She began to look for a university job outside Cambridge . |
| 8 | So I began to look for a husband . |
| 9 | He began to look for a job . |
| 10 | Sara began to look for a cup . |
| 11 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 12 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's began to look for an escape route : they could not risk the picture 's returning to the market and failing to hold its theoretical value . |
| 14 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 15 | However , before the electron microscope was available , in fact in 1937 , Andrade and Tsien decided to look for the cracks by the method of decoration , using of course an optical microscope . |
| 16 | Having got the company going , he decided to look for an accountant . |
| 17 | The stricken suitor followed the tradition laid down in these matters and went to look for a fight . |
| 18 | He was so frightened that I went to look for the animal . |
| 19 | Victoria went to look for the schedules of the complex from the main office . |
| 20 | He switched off the little girl on Terry Wogan and went to look for the Sturgeon . |
| 21 | Lady Selvedge and Mrs Grandison arrived at Victoria Station on the day of the bazaar shortly after noon , and proceeded to look for a place where they might have lunch , or luncheon , as they called it . |
| 22 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
| 23 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 24 | But first they had to look for a camp site so Mr was the chief engineer I was employed by him , to have a look round and we discovered Lyness farm to be a suitable place . |
| 25 | James , however , held the unwavering view that it was amongst the weak and the exploited where one had to look for the root of historical change . |
| 26 | We just had to look for the Motor Caravan Construction Code symbol . |