Example sentences of "casting [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | However , long before these disastrous developments , Vermuyden was wiping the mud of Hatfield off his boots and casting around for greener pastures . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
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 | Well , the shah did fall , and the bureaucrats started casting around for a replacement . |
10 | Seems Novell Inc missed a first call of the open systems boat back in its dim and distant proprietary past , when Reading , Berkshire-based X/Open Co Ltd was casting around for inter face technology that could tie personal computer networks into open systems . |
11 | Final configuration and pricing has yet to be finalised , the firm says , and it is still casting around for a name , although Series 200 has been mooted . |
12 | For a moment it was as if he was casting around for suitable names , and then suddenly he was looking past Alexei towards Jehan . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
15 | Casting around for members |
16 | Casting around for a safe topic , she remembered that she had not introduced herself . |
17 | It was here that the dogs came into their own , casting about for any tell-tale scent that would betray the presence of a hidden bomb . |
18 | Casting about for a sighting , she suddenly saw one of the dogs about a quarter of a mile away . |
19 | This sent them on their way without having to trouble too much over casting about for tracks . |
20 | Occasionally one would disappear in the direction of the High Street , casting about for an interesting sniff , hoping perhaps to discover a fox in the vicinity of the cut-price chemist . |
21 | And this gentleman in West Yorkshire would certainly have the blessing of many if he carried out his idea : ‘ Having taken early retirement , I am casting about for some way to supplement my pension . |
22 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
23 | But he admitted finding Minton 's facility suspect and thought ‘ the restlessness with which he is still casting about for fresh novelties of manner suggests a certain instability . ’ |
24 | ‘ God in heaven ! ’ said Bob , wide-awake , and casting about for his dressing-gown . |
25 | He cleared his throat , casting about for something to say which would indicate that though he was game for anything , he nonetheless knew how to keep his hands to himself . |
26 | There are also stressed forms , / / and / / , used when the word is emphasised or used by itself when the speaker is casting about for a substantive . |
27 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
28 | If she had still been in love with Finn , Lydia would not now be casting round for ways to entertain herself . |