Example sentences of "[vb past] to look for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I moved to look for the girl .
2 In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society .
3 At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor .
4 The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food .
5 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 .
6 He was so frightened that I went to look for the animal .
7 Victoria went to look for the schedules of the complex from the main office .
8 He switched off the little girl on Terry Wogan and went to look for the Sturgeon .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 We just had to look for the Motor Caravan Construction Code symbol .
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