Sentence examples for looked about for from inspiring English sources

Grabbing a carp, I looked about for guidance.

"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.

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.

The Tories are not impotent bystanders, however: how they respond to this difficulty will also determine its impact.Initially flustered by Mr Miliband's grandstanding, they looked about for rival gambits.

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.

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

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

Originally trained as a mechanical engineer, he had been working for 6 years as a nuclear engineer at Atomic Energy Canada, where things were "looking good" for McIvor, who says he "wasn't really looking about for another job".

Brexit is on the horizon and they keep looking about for trade deals in the Gulf".

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