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scouring
1. ‘No … but as I said, I haven’t had anything to do with her for a couple of years … why would anyone shoot her?’ I said, scouring my memories for any inkling which might give a clue
2. I’d started in the kitchen, washing up the breakfast things and then taking the cooker to pieces, scouring the chrome rings and going wild with the oven cleaner
3. ‘When was the battery changed last?’ I asked, scouring my mind for possible reasons for this
4. She lay back against the pillows and closed her eyes, scouring her brain for any clue as to what might have caused this situation
5. Again she set off, scouring her memory for details of the subway
6. It had been hard visiting Abery before but Joris hadn’t been there and she’d been able to withdraw into herself to some extent … and the European trip had been hectic, demanding her full attention … and in London afterwards she’d been occupied in achieving Joris’s purpose … and the trip across had kept her mind busy, first with JJ and then Iain … and even coming back, being at The Centre and travelling on the wasteg … that too had been manageable … but now … with no purpose to drive her, no solitude to enfold her and no Joris but only the shadow of his memory imprinted in JJ’s face and voice … she felt naked, vulnerable and viciously exposed to the scouring of her grief
7. scouring the hard read words within
8. ’ I replied, scouring my mind for any hint of this period
9. ’ I said, scouring my brain for any recollections of that time
10. land at their backs, they took to scouring the pools
11. scouring the bones clean,
12. ‘Banswell? Is that near Weston-super-Mare?’ I asked scouring my memory for recollections of that area and finding that it throws up a card
13. She went outside and was scouring down the B-B-Q grill, and she was pretty sure that they wouldn’t hear her inside
14. They all burst out with applause and shouts of ‘bravo!’ She turned beet red, and dropped her scouring pad, and stood with her mouth open
15. There's nothing unusual about vultures scouring the land for prey
16. Bill is too busy to help me out and I am thrown back on scouring my way through recipes on the internet
17. The wind buffeted the building, whistling through an invisible gap in the window frame and making an eerie noise, high pitched, floating above the scouring of the rain
18. scouring the surrounding area
19. scouring the tavern with his eyes, looking for the lucky
20. scouring the island for any sign of life
21. Can be helpful when horses are scouring or have diarrhoea and helping reduce fever
22. Their gentle astringent action makes them ideal for animals prone to scouring and horses can be seen to select rosehips happily when given the opportunity
23. She handed me some gloves, some scouring powder and a bucket of water, and I went to
24. The guards are scouring the sett for her now
25. Slowly, majestically, the storm's forces built to a crescendo high above the Brockenhurst Mountains, the sheets of rain scouring the vegetation from the land below, stripping all life from its bedrock, driving even the smallest ant from its nest
26. And as the once magnificent tree screamed a last, dying protest, the wind rushed into the immense scar it left, scouring away every trace of life
27. "We've had the Fairies scouring the forest and they've found nothing
28. Evans spent six years scouring newly uncovered documents (Venona files, FBI records, informants’ testimony, and heretofore secured
29. thieves scouring through the Plate’s discarded trash for anything
30. 45 You have made us as the off scouring and refuse in the midst of the people
31. scouring for any structural weakness to the barrier, one of the
32. scouring his world for a perfect transfer, it seemed that the Earth was over populated and there weren’t many areas untouched by the
33. Bob was busy scouring the site with his faithful torch which threw a red glow over the remaining debris
34. It slowly overpowered the hissing howl of the ever-rising wind that blew sand from every hoof that beat upon the ground, scouring the undisturbed sand into a motion like unto an undulating sea of sand that blew steadily north toward the ever faster moving line of chariots
35. scouring erosion gullies in the ashes as the downpour increased
36. scouring the undisturbed sand into a motion like unto an undulating sea of sand that blew
37. constantly reinventing itself, scouring the horizon for the only
38. buy the crew into scouring the landscape for signs of survivors,
39. that they’d grown used to scouring the land for clues
40. Jack began scouring
41. They continued their deep search to deck seven, opening every container, scouring every room, but they still found nothing
42. The image of soldiers or actual technicians scouring the corridors trying to find the saboteur who'd knocked out their servers frightened him
43. Calvin knew the Major probably had soldiers scouring the ship to recover any soldiers Pellew’s men had previously incapacitated, and he probably had men on their way to control the corridors around engineering, so his chances weren’t great—but Calvin had little choice
44. deprived as they are of the prison of the flesh, nothing is hidden before it; scouring the depths of consciousness to deploy, in its entire monstrosity, the ferrous nuances of regrets
45. On the floor lay the prisoner, still alive but faceless, searching and scouring the floor for his missing face
46. Lil’ B and E had been scouring the streets for hours
47. Both Matthew and Sarah were scouring the shops, looking for that special gift for their respective boyfriend and girlfriend, not to mention the rest of their family
48. finding an individual I liked, then scouring the profile just to
49. We have two dozen men scouring the site of the abductions but I have another idea
50. 'We should have sighted parties scouring the woods for us