Example sentences of "[v-ing] around for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking around for a possible light , we noticed an elderly couple smoking at a nearby tables . |
| 2 | This year the charity to benefit will be the Newborn Appeal , although the organising Speke 10k Committee are still looking around for a main sponsor for the event . |
| 3 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 4 | Searching around for a related but cooperative proposition that B might be intending to convey , we arrive at the opposite , or negation , of what B has stated namely that Britain does n't rule the seas , and thus by way of Relevance to the prior utterance , the suggestion that there is nothing that Britain could do . |
| 5 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 6 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 7 | Casting around for a suitable envoy to go out to Australia on behalf of a contrite British government , the choice fell on Major Julian Layton , an active promoter of the refugee cause whose experience encompassed several weeks on the Isle of Man liaising with the civil administration . |
| 8 | Skinner , who ticked me off yesterday for suggesting his vote had fallen , is off after 14 years , leaving my colleagues on the Sun distraught and casting around for a new NEC contact . |
| 9 | The news when Rain reached the office was that Tavett was again being questioned by the police ; there were insistent rumours of a row between Maureen and Barron ; the freedom of speech people were muttering obscenities because their latest attempt at a cartoon had been rejected ; and the Patriotic Ten were casting around for a fresh mind to help them get their statement into publishable form . |
| 10 | Casting around for a safe topic , she remembered that she had not introduced herself . |
| 11 | ‘ We ca n't afford to have people lingering around for a recuperative holiday … |