Example sentences of "[noun sg] in search of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also much evidence from a variety of sources that the labouring poor moved a great deal in search of employment , if usually not over very great distances . |
| 2 | A spadefoot toadlet leaving the desert pond in search of food . |
| 3 | She 'd had to buy all her guides Coca Cola from guiding funds , and send them home early in a hired bus in case they electrocuted themselves storming the gates of Eldercombe Manor in search of Dancer . |
| 4 | Indian friends have testified that they have witnessed a Cobra at night with its ‘ jewel ’ glowing , moving through the undergrowth In search of water . |
| 5 | Now , joined by the second man , whom he called Butch , he started off through the undergrowth in search of Mary . |
| 6 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 7 | Britain 's most famous archaeologist in search of communication from the past |
| 8 | ‘ Having acquired the means of gratification , such persons must explore the dimensions of pleasure in search of modes of gratification ; given the over determined character of their pursuit of the unreachable , their quest for new experiences begins to consume them . |
| 9 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 10 | Fifteen minutes later , Auguste shot out of the kitchen entrance in search of Alfred and Alice — or — more precisely , his quails and cutlets . |
| 11 | And everyone knew of the people they 'd bitten , like the man who went mad — wandering round the village in search of water , complaining of aching limbs and an unquenchable thirst — and whose body was found , months later , washed up in the river at Lāmri . |
| 12 | Lt Gen Vlasov , betrayed by a peasant after approaching a village in search of food , was captured by Dutch Waffen-SS troops . |
| 13 | Toftingall is at the centre of Caithness and in times past was the meeting place for local clans , who gathered there prior to setting off south in search of revenge , plunder or just a jolly good fight . |
| 14 | It is not clear if they were being tempted to the south in search of sugar or if the Atlantic voyages were mainly concerned with fishing . |
| 15 | There , he would be another old person elbowed and nudged by the hordes in their restive wildebeest migration in search of gratification . |
| 16 | Roland went to the British Museum in search of Blackadder . |
| 17 | An easy evening awaited him ; both he and Daalny were excused all service , for Rémy was to dine with the abbot and the earl , the first fruits of his campaign in search of place and status . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , he struggles to shake off his image as an emotional amputee in search of sympathy . |
| 19 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 20 | Most significantly , the impact of the Agricultural Revolution and the extensive enclosures in rural parishes during the late 18th and early 19th centuries drove the young and healthy away from home in search of work and the possibility of keeping body and soul together . |
| 21 | It was dark by the time the arriving passengers began to fan out through the town in search of lodgings . |
| 22 | It 's reasonable to suppose that people go into this business in search of fame . |
| 23 | The career of a full-time vegetarian forager , always on the move in search of food , can not include patterns of child-care which make such demands on the mother and which put the neonate in such a dependent state . |
| 24 | A Polish couple who lived in Cambuslang at that time regularly frequented the Shop in search of children 's clothes . |
| 25 | For three days the murder room was the haunt of SOCO and the Detective Chief Inspector as they quartered every inch in search of fingermarks , blood or saliva samples and other prey for their relentless , questioning minds . |
| 26 | Instead of enjoying her leave one of us has been forced to spend days on the phone in search of locums while the other is deprived of the option of completing extra surgeries in her own practice with her own patients . |
| 27 | at night in search of water , |
| 28 | When moving about the forest canopy at night in search of food , the colugo opens its ‘ parachute ’ , and makes long , controlled glides between individual trees and across forest clearings . |
| 29 | Boy labour reformers disapproved neither of the youth movement in general , nor of its goal , which was the building of Christian character , driven by civic responsibility in search of class harmony . |
| 30 | Bob Glass comes to Maria 's apartment in search of Leonard . |