Example sentences of "to look for a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening Friday went out to look for a turtle for meat and eggs . |
| 2 | You 've got to look for a home for her now , cos we 're er , moving home . |
| 3 | ‘ There are children with physical , mental and behavioural difficulties and we have to look for a range of staff to reflect the balance , ’ he said . |
| 4 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 5 | Christine and Tony had decided to look for a girl of about 2 , since they felt a baby would be too much to cope with and a 2- year-old could accompany Christine to nursery school . |
| 6 | been trying to look for a bit of paper and I opened a book today and found it ! |
| 7 | If the Club was to look for a return on its money , as any other investing institution would , the criteria for that return would be two fold ; a boom in the popularity of tennis at grass roots level and/or impressive results at international level . |
| 8 | By mid-afternoon I was almost at Freiburg and left the motorway to look for a village in which to stay , preferably near the Rhine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , the unanimous response of the EEC 's governments and institutions to the Danish referendum in July 1992 was to look for a way to ‘ accommodate ’ the Danish Government , to bring the Danes back on board ’ . |
| 11 | Since this practice is not yet by any means universal , and the player may not have come across it before , a note of explanation should be given at the beginning of the part , otherwise the asterisk will cause the player to look for a footnote at the bottom of the page . |
| 12 | He was involved in the most important questions of policy — negotiations for the marriage of royal children : Eleanor in 1170 and John in 1173 But in view of Eleanor of Aquitaine 's masterful political activity in later years it seems superfluous to look for a power behind the throne . |
| 13 | He said he was going to look for a radiator at a scrap yard somewhere passed Akers Way . |
| 14 | He had been dreading having to look for a place for lunch . |
| 15 | Wolves , who are beginning to look for a place in the promotion play-offs , hit back in the second half after Scott Sellars had poached a fine first-half goal . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's gone to look for a house for us , ’ William would tell Preston on their way home from school . |
| 17 | She said they 'd be much better to look for a house in this area but |
| 18 | HWIM 's solution was to look for a number of best-scoring seed words bottom-up and then to predict possible extensions ( words or word classes ) at either end of the seed word . |
| 19 | His greatest wall had been built when Mr Fractor came to look for a book on logarithms . |
| 20 | His point is that although ‘ rules of grammar ’ are arbitrary in the sense that it is a mistake to look for a justification of a language game ( 331 ) , they are not arbitrary in the sense that ‘ our language game only works , of course , when a certain agreement prevails ’ ( 430 ) . |
| 21 | We decide to look for a connection between types of advert and types of metaphor . |
| 22 | Then there were Heather and Katie , inseparable friends , who bolstered each other by their mutual devotion ; never had they known a Moment 's shame of friendlessness , never had they had to look for a partner in dancing or in gym , never had they walked alone from classroom to classroom , and their confidence overflowed and imposed itself upon all beholders . |
| 23 | An opportunity to discuss the difficulty over the telephone when it arises and to look for a means of reducing the effects of the crisis is the starting point . |
| 24 | It did not occur to him to look for a seat outside Worcestershire , and even if it had there was little reason why he should have secured one . |
| 25 | But sometimes , when I had time to spare , I used to look for a bargain in the Mercato della Ghiaia , the Gravel Market , which still exists today . |
| 26 | For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself . |
| 27 | This low incidence of visual handicap means , in effect , that not every local education authority in England and Wales will have a range of appropriate educational placements for the severely visually impaired pupil , and it may be necessary to look for a solution in regional terms , or perhaps attendance at a residential special school may be considered . |
| 28 | This command tells DOS to look for a match in C : \DOS , then in C : \WINDOWS and so on . |
| 29 | She went up West , to look for a job in one of the big department stores . |