Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been search for " 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 | 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 . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
6 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
7 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
8 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
9 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
10 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |