Example sentences of "been searching for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 2 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 5 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 6 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 7 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 8 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 9 | They have set up an AIDS task force , which has been searching for the bug that causes the disease ; they suspect a virus . |