Sentence examples for look about for from inspiring English sources

We'd like to bet that if the railroads look about for their tank cars they will find the sametiny barefootprints.

By Emily Dean and E. B. White The New Yorker, March 21 , 1936P. 11 This is the moment in March one begins to look about for signs of the first timid green in shoot or sward.

(Caroline Austen, another of Jane's nieces, recalled him this way: "Very plain in person — awkward, and even uncouth in manner — nothing but his size to recommend him — he was a fine big man — but one need not look about for secret reasons to account for a young lady's not loving him").

Then I look about for a flat spot up the sheer walls where we might reposition Seth...there is nothing.

However, there are plenty of other species that can be grown under trees and gardeners should look about for plants that meet their own personal needs.

Grabbing a carp, I looked about for guidance.

On another week, a forlornly eager old grad in a "Class of 1926" sweatshirt looks about for company.

A THOUGHT I straightened my tie and looked about for someone to be pleasant to, but the nearest fellow-traveller was fourteen feet down the bar and totally occupied in making rings on the mahogany with his beer glass.

He and Hester shared the family possessions when it was clearly no longer practical to retain the rented accommodation above the bread shop; Bartholomew found a room in the parish where he worked; Hester looked about for one.

"Wishing to have my share of the fun, I looked about for the means of disguising myself," a 19-year-old mason's apprentice recalled in one of the many examples of Freedman's strong research.

Then she looked about for the first question, only to be met with silence — a response, as I learned later, that was a reflex among the London-based reporters, who had long experience of how dismissive she could be.