Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been searching " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I felt that perhaps here , at last , was the way into the treatment of genetic disorders for which I had been searching . |
| 3 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 4 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 5 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been searching all over for you ! |
| 8 | Doreen hastened towards them , her face contorted with anger as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — I 've been searching everywhere for you . |
| 9 | You see , I have been searching the moors with my telescope , and although I have not actually seen the prisoner , I have seen the person who is taking him food . ’ |
| 10 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 11 | She had been searching Gaby 's workroom , but she must have had her suspicions before . |
| 12 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 13 | You have been searching for me . |
| 14 | The low cliffs were the key to the puzzle : we had been searching too far north . |
| 15 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 16 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 17 | He has been searching the dark realm , a moving shadow flowing through the looping Interiors ; dark , dimlit , floodlit . |
| 18 | Like many consumed by a powerful love , he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative . |
| 19 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 20 | ‘ Mind you , ’ he said , ‘ Mr Shildon did n't say he 'd been searching your property or that he ever believed you had his keys . |
| 21 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 22 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 23 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 24 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 25 | In Henry , Arnulf finally found the potential monarch for whom he had been searching . |
| 26 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 27 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |