Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] search [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 2 | There were no constraints and from the outset the showmen were not unaware that many of their patrons had come in search of entertainment that was not entirely respectable . |
| 3 | The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information , not confrontation . |
| 4 | He had gone in search of gold and glory and they thought the better of him for it ; even the composer of the ‘ New World Symphony ’ was careful to sound the horns of triumph . |
| 5 | Gauguin 's chair , " Effet de Nuit " , Alexander came to realise , with its nocturnal colour-scheme of ruddy browns and murky greens resembled the iniquitous " Night Cafe " ( and by implication the brothels the two painters had haunted in search of subject-matter and what else ? , scene of Gauguin 's triumphs and Vincent 's humiliations ) . |