Example sentences of "and look for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 2 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 3 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 4 | Or maybe it was like the ball in a roulette wheel , bouncing around and looking for the right number … |
| 5 | It buys weapons while Iraqi arms purchases are embargoed , and while UN inspectors prowl the Iraqi desert destroying chemical weapons and looking for the places where Mr Hussein may still be trying to build nuclear ones . |
| 6 | I 'm living alone now and looking for the next relationship , which I hope will be the last one . |
| 7 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 8 | Such a need could be met by processing the whole file sequentially and looking for the records required , but this would be very inefficient . |
| 9 | He will come round the wicket to start probing the rib cage and looking for the catch as the batsman tries to fend off the ball . |
| 10 | After two more appearances , during which you are inconveniently looking the wrong way , you decide to go and look for the ghost . |
| 11 | Can I have my ring back and then Christopher can go and look for the ring that he had on his head , he had a wooden one on his head , do you remember ? |
| 12 | Would you like to go and look for the ring dear ? |
| 13 | The enterprising walker could reach Cape Matapan and look for the cave entrance to Hades . |
| 14 | I vote we walk into it and look for the summit under the water . ’ |
| 15 | Try to ignore the clutter and detail , and look for the central themes or metaphors . |
| 16 | Check the excellent scantily clads and look for the blatant Talkin Loud ‘ inspiration ’ |
| 17 | He will then envisage the designed chain of events between input and output and look for the hiatus , he may do this by rules , by a pictorial model or by a model involving some symbolism such as expected voltage levels . |
| 18 | Grab her handbag and look for the means to buy a new tank hood ? |
| 19 | All we need to do is to push microelectrodes into the regions to which the prestriate cortex projects and look for the cells that only respond to particular objects . |
| 20 | You could take home just a few to cut open and look for the young larva or larvae , as in some types of gall there is always more than one larva , each in its own separate section . |
| 21 | Go down there and look for the apothecary 's sign . |
| 22 | He 'd open the door , take a few sips , close the door and look for the principal in the toilet . |
| 23 | I suggest that we proceed along those lines and look for the most economic way to alleviate my constituents ' problems while not doing too much damage to my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 24 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 25 | Compare it with other theories , try and look for the limitations of it . |
| 26 | And then you wait and look for the post every single day . |
| 27 | Because few of us possess universal skills , we learn to value one another 's and to look for the unexpected amongst our colleagues ( the music teacher who is a professional photographer , the lab technician skilled in electronics ) ; and because teachers must necessarily concentrate mostly on what is pre-eminently their task , the design and communication of learning experiences , we value those para-professionals able to concentrate on related areas , such as the production of resources from our basic design , and the collection and organization of recorded information and communication in all formats . |
| 28 | They forced several corners and looked for the height of Simon White and Steve Harris to open up the sometimes nervous ‘ Mill defence . |
| 29 | Mr Tomlinson became very anxious and looked for the passenger both on and under the train . |
| 30 | When Stuart and I heard this we got up and looked for the nearest exit . |