Example sentences of "[verb] searching for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work involves searching for companies to acquire , approaching them , forming a view on price , then negotiating on behalf of clients and carrying out due diligence work . |
| 2 | In the New Testament Jesus uses two images to convey God 's extravagant concern for the world : one is the shepherd who risks the rest of the flock in order to go searching for the lost sheep ; the other is the woman who turns a house upside down looking for lost coins . |
| 3 | The club is taking over a second-floor suite of offices on a short-term lease , but it is to continue searching for new premises , almost certainly still in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 5 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 6 | This is an area for green woodpeckers , which surprisingly are more likely to be seen searching for food on the ground than in the trees . |
| 7 | After the meeting he insisted that both governments would keep searching for ways to convene a conference and declared that the " process is not stuck " . |
| 8 | N.B. Good spellers , on the other hand , often enjoy searching for exceptions and looking at incorrect examples , because they can see what 's wrong . |
| 9 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 10 | Whole life spent searching for him . |
| 11 | Since it would be a temporary work programme , and not a training scheme , these ‘ intermediate workers ’ would be paid the weekly rate for the job , minus the pay for the day spent searching for an alternative form of employment . |
| 12 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 13 | I 'd known her , and her husband Alan Rakoff , for a long time and as I began searching for someone to play Barbara I just found myself thinking about her . |
| 14 | Everyone in the class started laughing and the teacher began searching for the culprit . |
| 15 | Antony grinned in resignation at Connon and began searching for the tablecloth . |
| 16 | This company began searching for finance four years ago . |
| 17 | I take a size 13 and have to start searching for my next shoes immediately after breaking in a pair of new ones . |
| 18 | The transmitter substances which we described in chapters 4 and 6 provided a valuable basis from which to start searching for new drugs . |
| 19 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |
| 20 | Auckland ( NZ 's largest city , and the one into which most visitors are decanted from their 747s ) has a fine international airport ( with a statue to Jean Batten and a well-worth seeking-out small memorial corner in the terminal dedicated to this New Zealand pioneer pilot ) , but this is the last place you want to start searching for vacation VFR . |
| 21 | Crow had to start searching for something to eat . |
| 22 | He decided , though , it would be best to do it alone and started searching for a new workshop where he could work in secret on a new plan . |
| 23 | The fact that an individual started searching for a job while in his old job does not significantly increase the chance of obtaining an offer . |
| 24 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 25 | It is the process where-by the state encourages and legitimates certain forms of dependency , such as unemployment and early retirement among men aged 60–64 , while subjecting others not only to substantially lower incomes , but also to control procedures intended to ensure that they continue searching for work ( Sinfield 1981 : 142 ) . |
| 26 | Later on when we had returned to the daylight offensive with the 8th Air Force , escorted by hundreds of fighters , could we go searching for oil . |
| 27 | They knew that physically Rose could do much more than she was willing to try , so they kept searching for the key that would restore her will to live without being , unnecessarily , a burden on others . |
| 28 | And your mother knew she herself would be the next one ; for when the mob have killed one witch , they always go searching for another . |
| 29 | Yet I keep changing , keep searching for the next challenge . |
| 30 | They keep searching for something — anything — to sell back home , on Earth . |