Example sentences of "she [was/were] search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Tylee 's courtesy was unfailing — she was a neatly dressed lady who wore a velvet neckband and her ‘ pince-nez ’ or pinchers as we called them were attached to a thin gold necklet , ready to be placed at the end of her nose when she was searching for something required by her customers . |
| 2 | She dreamt that she was searching for something glorious : it could have been money , it could have been love , she did not know . |
| 3 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 4 | She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for . |
| 5 | She saw what she was searching for — the deep love she had once known before . |
| 6 | She was searching for Mr Right , and did n't care who knew it . |