Example sentences of "[verb] be searching for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 2 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 3 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 4 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 5 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 6 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 7 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 8 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |