Example sentences of "he [was/were] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His gaze wandered round the room as though he were looking for someone . |
| 2 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 3 | no well he knew what he were looking for , something worth when you think |
| 4 | He was Looking for me . |
| 5 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 6 | One down against Jan Timman , with three left to play , he was looking for a solid advantage with the white pieces . |
| 7 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 8 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 9 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 10 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 11 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 12 | George Underwood : ‘ When you leave school , you have to queue up and see a career 's officer and I remember I was standing right behind David in the queue and asked him what sort of job he was going to say he was looking for . |
| 13 | We knew what he was looking for and it was n't there . |
| 14 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
| 15 | He was looking for the bowl of eggs he had seen earlier . |
| 16 | Thinking about the past , helping to build a cupboard , playing in the village band or photographing the bootmaker and the carpenter , Mr Spender seems contented and within the Tuscany he was looking for when he was , as he says , tired of the ‘ thin blue light of London ’ . |
| 17 | He was looking for kudos rather than profit . |
| 18 | The wild bohemianism of the life at Kisling 's was stimulating and hectic but a drain on Modigliani 's limited energy and he was looking for a change in his life . |
| 19 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 20 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 21 | He was looking for space in which to dump two sacks of garden fertiliser . |
| 22 | A few yards farther on he found the house he was looking for . |
| 23 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 24 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 25 | Working as a pageboy in a club in St James 's in the 1930s , he mentioned to a member that he was looking for a better-paid job . |
| 26 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 27 | He gambled mean and if he loaned money he was looking for interest . |
| 28 | He assessed her as if he was looking for flaws in a jewel . |
| 29 | ‘ He was looking for the environment he knew … straight hair , no sunglasses , a good grey suit , collar and tie . ’ |
| 30 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |