Example sentences of "he [verb] been search for " in BNC.

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1 The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem .
2 He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation .
3 The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak .
4 She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money .
5 He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time .
6 He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found .
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