Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] searching for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were searching for the gym shoes . |
| 2 | I did wonder if they were searching for the book . |
| 3 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 4 | He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks . |
| 5 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |