Example sentences of "cast around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes . |
| 2 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 3 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 4 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 5 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 6 | So often the preacher has an idea that he feels strongly about , and he then casts around for a scripture that seems to fit his message . |
| 7 | Mr Moynihan should even now be pressing the football authorities to cast around for an island where The Problem can be contained . |
| 8 | These factors , coupled with the abolition of scale charges for conveyancing , caused the lawyers to cast around for alternative sources of income . |
| 9 | While the employers tended to cast around for reasons outside the work process when they wished to disparage women workers , unionists spoke more often of the low level of women compositors " skill . |
| 10 | Not everyone unfortunately has children so you may have to cast around for other members of the family . |
| 11 | It is an ASTONISHING piece of equipment — and I long to know how to use other design and text layout programmes which can be purchased and loaded into it , but want to cast around for sound advice as the programmes cost significant sums each . |
| 12 | Huy cast around for something to say , and found nothing . |
| 13 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 14 | It should come as no surprise then , that some of those who see bolting as fundamentally reducing the experience I 've outlined above , and which is our common heritage , should cast around for some solid arguments to counter its spread . |
| 15 | Instead , as officials realised that the failure of agriculture , the failure to industrialise and the continuing Ostflucht were combining to produce a massive crisis in the east , they cast around for an external enemy on whom to project the cause of their misfortune . |
| 16 | Meryl could sense the woman 's agitation and anger , and cast around for some diversion . |
| 17 | He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge . |
| 18 | So I cast around for somewhere else and we found this , in a very poor state of repair . |
| 19 | When , in 1916 , pacifist thinkers cast around for an alternative power which claimed to represent the universal interests of mankind , their eyes turned to the United States . |
| 20 | We can adapt our theories , or cast around for fresh ones , to suit our intuitions . |
| 21 | Unable to mobilize peasant support , the revolutionaries cast around for alternative strategies . |
| 22 | Once inside the shed , Amis entered the cage and cast around for the big wrench that he 'd taken to keeping in here . |
| 23 | Casting around for a task for the Crown Prince , Palace advisers had considered putting him to work leading a development campaign within the Commonwealth , before the inner-city initiative seized his imagination . |
| 24 | However , long before these disastrous developments , Vermuyden was wiping the mud of Hatfield off his boots and casting around for greener pastures . |
| 25 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Upset by what he had seen and casting around for someone to blame , he translated his guilt into aggression and resurrected the threat of marriage to Sien as a supposed solution . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |