Example sentences of "began [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here they also found the values of the market place , which stressed personal independence and self-gratification , and began to search for a sexual fulfilment which , Shorter . |
| 2 | I was involved in opposing the Vietnam War , began to write for a left newspaper , Black Dwarf and became part of the beginnings of the women 's liberation movement . |
| 3 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 4 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 5 | But , in the summer of 1945 , he took a furnished room in Kensington and began to look for a suitable and convenient residence of his own . |
| 6 | The March Hare poured a little hot tea on its nose , and the Hatter began to look for a clean plate . |
| 7 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 8 | Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in . |
| 9 | Eventually , they entered London , and Noah began to look for a quiet , cheap pub where they could spend the night . |
| 10 | Perhaps most disturbing from the point of view of the central authorities , the party organisations in the three republics , particularly in Lithuania , began to press for a greater degree of independence , establishing direct links with outside ruling parties and adopting their own programme and statute , within or if necessary outside the framework of the CPSU as a whole . |
| 11 | With the publication of the terms of Emancipation inflammatory pamphlets began to call for a mass uprising . |
| 12 | The local Parties , growing in strength , began to ask for a greater voice in decisions than was allowed under the 1918 constitution . |