Example sentences of "[was/were] searching for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tired of listening to dolphins squeak , they were searching for new ways to communicate with those obdurate , cloth-eared Earthlings . |
| 2 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 3 | So they both were searching for some lost part of themselves this summer . |
| 4 | They were searching for ten fridges and freezers which the consumer magazine ‘ Which ’ says are the most energy-efficient models on the market . |
| 5 | The Cornell team was searching for neutral hydrogen inside other known galaxies . |
| 6 | He knew that he was searching for sixteen points of comparison before he could be sure of positive identification . |
| 7 | I always felt that he was never really happy with his performance of La Mer ; he was searching for certain textures which he could never really get in hand . |
| 8 | The fighting was caused for three reasons : different sides kept stealing cattle ; everybody was searching for new land ; and according to the Romans the Celts liked fighting . |
| 9 | A little man , ‘ looking like a smart French doctor ’ , he was searching for hidden treasure . |
| 10 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 11 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 12 | Like the great post-War German abstract stained glass artist , Reyntiens was searching for serene rationality through simplified structure and line . |