Example sentences of "[was/were] searching for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erika dissented quite vehemently from this heresy while , despite herself , her eyes were searching for a mirror . |
| 2 | Violet Sangston found me while I was searching for a hiding-place . |
| 3 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 4 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 5 | He asserted that the West was searching for a pretext for an Israeli military assault on Iraq and that this was a mistake , " because by God we will make the fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq " . |
| 6 | She had innate sense of good movement and was searching for a system embodying those principles which fulfilled her concept of the art of movement and teaching its technique . |
| 7 | Now they were seeping into the consciousness of people within a milieu which , rejecting straight left politics , was searching for a route out of a hippy enclave at a time when the political temperature was rising . |
| 8 | The driver was searching for a gap in the traffic . |
| 9 | Spencer Stuart was certainly the loser when one of their senior consultants in Hong Kong , Paul Cheng , was searching for a director of corporate affairs for overseas trader Inchcape and decided to join them . |