Example sentences of "[pers pn] have search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had to search for Vietnam . |
| 2 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 3 | I 'll prepare a ship at Bristol , take you and Hawkins with me , and have that treasure if I have to search for a year ! ’ |
| 4 | I have to search for a two-way adaptor and a tape to try it out . |
| 5 | It was n't as if she had searched for it , determined to see what lay behind the forever locked door . |
| 6 | She had searched for pictures and added them to her dreams , gypsies dancing , donkeys plodding through narrow streets , dazzling white houses and cool patios drenched in flowers . |
| 7 | Stunned by the sensation , she had to search for all the willpower she possessed not to let her reaction show in her expression . |
| 8 | You can buy just about everything you ever need in Funchal , but you may have to search to find it — many shops may just recently have run out of the very product you want , so that you have to search for a shop which still has old stock until more is imported . |
| 9 | I explained we had searched for Horne but could not find him . ’ |
| 10 | It was the second time they 'd searched for her , following sightings in North Oxford . |
| 11 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 12 | Teachers need to take children 's ideas seriously , and avoid making them feel that they have to search for the right answer , hidden somewhere in the teacher 's head . |
| 13 | They have searched for the death |
| 14 | He has searched for and found treasure . |
| 15 | He has searched for and found treasure on every continent ( except Antarctica ) , and he has dived for treasure in every ocean . |
| 16 | Gulls picked at the mudbanks where once he 'd searched for jewellery . |
| 17 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 18 | He had searched for this assassin by silent threat and bribery but so far had discovered nothing . |