Example sentences of "we [verb] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we agreed to look for a new approach " . |
| 2 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 3 | Broad-front exploration is expensive and tedious so we tend to look for some key factor that will simplify the task . |
| 4 | Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes , whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods ) , but the principle is much the same . |
| 5 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 6 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 7 | So we came to look for you . ’ |
| 8 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 9 | The next day we began to look for work . |
| 10 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 11 | We decide to look for a connection between types of advert and types of metaphor . |
| 12 | We started looking for the hole in the long summer holidays . |
| 13 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 14 | We went looking for like-minds and found aliens . |
| 15 | We went looking for the river . |
| 16 | Should you mind if we went to look for something to drink instead ? " |
| 17 | And then we er we left school and then we went to work for to w we went to look for work . |
| 18 | Now we did look for better things . |
| 19 | I mean , we do look for things on the papers to try and justify giving people marks , you know , we 're not sort of out to fail you . |
| 20 | If he go up , we 'ave to look for another ringer . ’ |
| 21 | We learned to look for the black tongue , water that would take us between rocks . |
| 22 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 23 | ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten . |
| 24 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 25 | Many years before we had looked for red kites , on a spring camping holiday in the valley of the River Tywi . |
| 26 | So we decided we had to look for a new singer . |
| 27 | On the way we had to look for letters and treasure which was leaves , flowers and things . |
| 28 | Oh no We had to look for work . |
| 29 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 30 | erm We had to look for some lower riders and erm Tony Primmer of course comes in at four , which helps us immensely . |