Example sentences of "looking [prep] some [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is actually tying this up with an exam question , I was looking through some past papers to try and spot things we may not have covered in detail . |
| 2 | WE are looking for some one-cap wonders of soccer this week with a query that wins £25 for Mr F. Stillwell of Basingstoke . |
| 3 | they have large pans , but even they were looking for some large pans ! |
| 4 | TRANMERE manager John King is looking for some special deliveries against Southend tonight . |
| 5 | But looking at some still pictures of it I reckon I made a mistake early on which could have denied ‘ Obbo ’ of scoring a more orthodox try . |
| 6 | Before looking at some specific examples it is as well to have some idea of just what a mathematician means by a ‘ helix ’ because scientists have taken liberties with the word in looking for terms to describe the world . |
| 7 | We might try to approach an answer to this question by first looking at some specific features that characterise the identifying references to different kinds of topics of discourse . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the Reston , Virginia-based Visix , which reckons it missed the contract IBM awarded to Neuron Data Inc last week by a whisker , is thought to be looking at some alternative ways of marketing Galaxy , including using the Internet as a vehicle . |
| 9 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 10 | I do n't mind us looking at some funny ideas , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ but let's not go crazy . ’ |