Example sentences of "[verb] been searching for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have set up an AIDS task force , which has been searching for the bug that causes the disease ; they suspect a virus . |
| 2 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 3 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 4 | Irene Macaulay has been searching for peace for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ The apparel industry has been searching for something new for a long time and this is something which will be exciting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 9 | Wayne was enchanted to see Hermia and Perdita , and gave the appearance of having been searching for them all day . |
| 10 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 11 | A baby — and the designer Edouard had been searching for so long . |
| 12 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 17 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 18 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 19 | In him she had found something her Libran soul had been searching for . |
| 20 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 22 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 23 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 24 | You have been searching for me . |
| 25 | Since the publication in 1982 of the Barclay Report , Social Workers : Their Role and Tasks , many social services departments in the UK have been searching for ways of putting into practice ideas about community-based social work . |
| 26 | And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer : |