Mr. Baylor told one buyer, Guillermo Adames, to look for abandoned properties, and to let him know if there was one he liked, the report said.
In the beginning, we look for abandoned ruins and dystopian places with any traces of any kind of subculture, but we soon have to adjust to the realities here.
Every morning on my commute to work, when I am already constantly divided between the temptation to zone out and the obligation to remain vigilant and look for abandoned backpacks and shifty-eyed passengers, I have no choice but to stand and stare at posters showing a smoldering New York skyline and a decapitated Statue of Liberty.
Teachers often look for "abandoned" quotations, which students will use to pad their page count, but if you connect it to your main points for a reason, you're making the quote worthwhile.
After eight months they found what they were looking for: an abandoned casa padronale.
About an hour's drive from Rio, near a fishing village called Barra de Guaratiba, he found what he was looking for: an abandoned banana plantation with a small country house, a 17th-century chapel and 90 acres of grounds.
Salford, England — If you happened to be looking for an abandoned industrial building beside a toxic patch of land in a troubled inner urban area blighted by crime, unemployment, illegal drugs, too much unhealthy food and not enough of the healthy stuff, Irwell House would have been perfect.
Operating in the dark, using infrared radars and night-vision goggles, the boat captains searched for suspicious-looking tugs and dhows, circling them like police officers looking for fugitives in abandoned cars.
