Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] searching for " in BNC.
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1 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
2 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
3 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
4 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
5 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
6 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |