Example sentences of "his search for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door closed and she was probably back at her desk before Jenkins moved , having abandoned his search for a good come-back . |
| 2 | Hereward 's own background needs clarifying in case there are other people who wanted him dead.Dersingham , and by extension Vanessa , might have a motive , so I need to know where he 's got to in his search for a putative heir . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |