Example sentences of "looking for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Staff had spent most of Friday afternoon and evening looking for the child and the owner , Alan Tym , had gone back again late that night to double check that James had not crawled behind a counter or into a cupboard and fallen asleep . |
| 3 | Noone was looking for the ball or running into space . |
| 4 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 5 | One of the most obvious places to start looking for the existence or not of inequality between different social groups is the amount of income that people earn , since money is so important in our society . |
| 6 | Sounds to me like an angry father , With a pistol in either hand , Looking for the man that screwed his daughter ( Rum ti-iddle-ey etc ) . |
| 7 | I walked the length of the main street twice , looking for the inn or a place of refreshment . |
| 8 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |
| 9 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 10 | Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ The whole country will be looking for the result and most of them will be hoping the underdogs do well . |
| 12 | At a time when many middle-class voters would be looking for the party that would best defend them from Labour , this Conservative strength would be of vital importance . |
| 13 | But Hooper has earned a reprieve with Liverpool looking for the solidity and assurance he showed in last year 's UEFA Cup battle with Italian club Genoa . |
| 14 | This is the nearest thing to typesetting yet released and it speaks PostScript so for desktop publishers looking for the quality but without typesetting it could be the answer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 17 | ‘ For here we do not have an enduring city , but we are looking for the city that is to come , ’ says the writer to the Hebrews . |
| 18 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 19 | We will be looking for the team that shows most strength in depth , across a range of ages , and both sexes . |
| 20 | I understand at one time it was possible to cross the river by means of stepping stones but these are no longer in position and the landowner finds that walkers wander along the river bank looking for the path and for a way to cross the river . |