Example sentences of "he had been searching for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 2 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 3 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 4 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 5 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |