Sentence examples for looking about for from inspiring English sources

I have the same curiosity I did when I started and I tremendously enjoy what I am doing.' To crown recent honours, BBC Films has just secured Gwyneth Paltrow to play Sylvia Plath in a new feature film and Yentob, along with colleagues, is busily looking about for an appropriate star to play Ted Hughes.

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".

He was looking about for a Clear Hole in which to sanctify his digits according to the law of scripture.

It's evening in Melbourne and a young woman paces up and down the street, her eyes looking about for potential clients.

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.

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

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.