Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been searching for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’
3 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 .
4 I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’
5 I 've been searching for ages . ’
6 It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone .
7 The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question .
8 You have been searching for me .
9 The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem .
10 He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation .
11 The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak .
12 She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money .
13 He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time .
14 He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found .
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