Example sentences of "his search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need to over-play the slightly pathetic quality but seek out the eagerness of his search for something to do . |
| 2 | Tom Scotland flew 62 ops from Italy with a Pathfinder squadron ( 614 ) ; his autobiography is a story of his search for truth , for something that would enable him to make sense out of all the destruction and chaos that was a part of wartime life . |
| 3 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |
| 4 | A City businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds to finance his search for a perfect gambling system was jailed for four years . |
| 5 | Buddie snatched up Frankie 's hand , prodded the swelling and squeezed the purple bruises in his search for a break in the skin . |
| 6 | It is a part of his search for perfection , according to Mr Ferguson , who is delighted at the way Schmeichel has adapted to life in England . |
| 7 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 8 | I knew all these ; had already played with them in my mind , from the most inconsequential ( Mickey Spillane 's ‘ another three days ' work never hurt anyone' ) to the most tragic : the story of Joseph de Jussieu and his search for the fever tree . |
| 9 | He was intelligent enough to understand that his search for Elsie was , in part , an escape from his own family . |
| 10 | So powerful a mixture of love and rejection was both perplexing and formative , leaving the child uncertain where to attach his affections , and desperate in his search for acceptance and approval . |
| 11 | In his search for the most effective approach to the training of boys , Baden-Powell made an extensive study of past and present methods . |
| 12 | The therapist encouraged Tony to look back at what had and had not changed , and stressed the efforts Tony had made to bring some structure and pleasure to his weekly routine , and to pursue his search for a job . |
| 13 | Jean de Vaubrun rode to Edinburgh from France in the autumn of 1792 [ or possibly 1793 ] , never pausing in his search for the woman he loved . |
| 14 | Deftly , he cut four thick slices from the granary loaf , then began his search for the cheese . |
| 15 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 16 | However , his search for alternative employment has so far met with no success . |
| 17 | They felt that a low status job of that kind was unfair to the family as a whole and would be unhelpful in his search for a permanent one . |
| 18 | It contributed to D'Arcy 's increasingly bad mood as he scoured the city in his search for the directors of Spidex International Trading . |
| 19 | Has n't his search for Maastricht supporters resembled Indiana 's quest for the Grail ? |
| 20 | Success Sunderland are adopting the same formation that brought Ipswich success in the 70s , and the results have been encouraging enough to persuade the 37-year-old boss to call off his search for a midfield playmaker . |
| 21 | In his search for conviction that he was one of the Elect , justified by faith , he was helped by coming across an old tattered copy of Luther 's Commentary on Galatians . |
| 22 | CHELSEA boss Ian Porterfield has targeted CSKA Moscow 's international , Dimitri Kharin , in his search for a goalkeeper . |
| 23 | He had plugged his new film , discussed his talented family , talked about his work in the theatre , and we had listened attentively while he outlined his search for spiritual enlightenment and concern about the problems in Tibet . |
| 24 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 25 | Anselm carried into politics his search for an eternal order of truth and justice , unshakeable and subject to no alteration . |
| 26 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |
| 27 | Man begins with himself in his search for understanding . |
| 28 | After living as a vagrant for several more months and getting nowhere in his search for Katya , Grandfather Denknetzeyan decided to leave his beloved Russia . |
| 29 | At that time , European scholars were fascinated by the technological and , as they saw them , moral triumphs of their age , and obsessed with the necessity for progress in all fields of human endeavour ; they felt a positive obligation to contemplate continually the long , hard road along which man had struggled in his search for perfection . |
| 30 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |