Example sentences of "searching for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 2 | SEARCHING FOR MR MOSES : |
| 3 | Below 1,500 feet , the maps should be ignored and priority should be given to checking for suitable fields below while also searching for lift , re-checking on the local wind direction and moving towards a better area of fields if necessary . |
| 4 | ‘ Darling ! ’ breathed Jay , drawing her close , searching for her adorable lips again , ‘ stay with me . |
| 5 | For example , now , she would be gathering shells to show to The Beloved , searching for ways to describe the perfect Disney sky . |
| 6 | Cameron and Menzies looked at each other , searching for signs of belief that something could still be made of the occasion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 9 | Small wonder that scientists are searching for every lower temperatures , nearer still to absolute zero , where even more mysterious effects may be waiting . |
| 10 | Police in the Irish Republic are searching for Damien Hulme , 40 , who was abducted from his home in Dundalk , Co Louth , by a gang wearing masks and carrying sledgehammers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Stoke , still searching for a League win , recall £250,000 front-man Biggins , fit after knee surgery . |
| 13 | SAILING around the coast of England searching for shoals of fish , Gerorge Trowark , a Cornish fisherman born in 1877 , must have visited dozens of ports and harbours . |
| 14 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 15 | Chief Supt David Foster said there was no indication of a sexual attack and police were still searching for a murder weapon . |
| 16 | The Philippines government , still searching for the estimated £6.5bn that the Marcos family squirreled away , is unimpressed with this fairy tale . |
| 17 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 18 | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE are searching for financial backers for an extension to the new £500,000 William Clarke stand , at Trent Bridge . |
| 19 | The All Blacks are searching for perfection on the pitch and the physical strength and skill of their forwards leaves you with the sense that they are not far from attaining that dream . |
| 20 | Mark co-wrote a book Skulduggery about his experiences searching for the Orang-hutan tribes , but it is his most recent adventure — travelling through India on the back of an elephant — which has really captured the public 's imagination . |
| 21 | often , new songwriters are searching for a recording contract as artists . |
| 22 | In voicing his theory of impersonality , and in searching for terms of extreme yet impersonal expression anthropology was important in terms of the ideas and structures which it provided , but also in terms of its vocabulary again often used for the communication of deep distress . |
| 23 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 24 | A few days later I took a walk down the Kings Road , mostly searching for a pair of brothel creepers . |
| 25 | Erika dissented quite vehemently from this heresy while , despite herself , her eyes were searching for a mirror . |
| 26 | She searched for words , and was still searching for them as the front door opened and Herr Nordern came in . |
| 27 | But the designer writing on the camera body needlessly confuses the first-time user searching for the shutter-release pad , which even adults find hard to operate . |
| 28 | Guided by his new-found friend , Charles studied Jung and also the work of economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher , who wrote a book entitled Small Is Beautiful ; over the years the Prince has found many of the answers he was searching for . |
| 29 | SEARCHING FOR A ROLE |
| 30 | Deeside Dragons , still searching for a point in the Heineken British League First Division , have released the Americans Tim McGee and Tim Caddo . |