Scouring : search-35.2












[8 : Somebody ----s something ]



NP (Agent) V () PP.location[PREP] (Location) NP (Searcher) V () PP[through] (Ground) DNI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[through] (Ground) INI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[about] (Ground) INI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[in] (Ground) DNI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[in] (Ground) INI (Sought_entity)
NP (Ground) V () CNI (Searcher) Sforto (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[through] (Ground) AVP (Manner) INI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[through] (Ground) AVP (Manner) PP[like] (Manner) INI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () NP (Ground) PP[in] (Purpose) 2nd (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () NP (Ground) INI (Sought_entity) AVP (Time)
NP (Searcher) V () NP (Ground) INI (Sought_entity) Sub (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Location) PP.theme[for] (Theme) NP (Searcher) V () NP (Ground) DNI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () NP (Ground) PP[for] (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () NP (Ground) INI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () DNI (Ground) INI (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () DNI (Ground) PP[for] (Sought_entity)
NP (Agent) V () PP.theme[for] (Theme) NP.location[PREP] (Location)
NP (Agent) V () PP.location[PREP] (Location) PP.theme[for] (Theme) NP (Searcher) V () PP[through] (Ground) PP[for] (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[around] (Ground) PP[for] (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[in] (Ground) PP[for] (Sought_entity)
NP (Searcher) V () PP[under] (Ground) PP[for] (Sought_entity)


Examples from WordNet


The police scoured the country for the fugitive
They combed the area for the missing child



Examples from VerbNet


I searched in the cave for treasure.
I searched the cave for treasure.
I searched for treasure in the cave.
I searched through America.



Examples from SemCor


Everywhere his ideas lay or hung in visible form: his models, drawings, ten foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days, and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as_though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac.
`` It is as though'', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio_broadcast which I bought( following Father_Coughlin and pre_empting the Eddie_Cantor, Manhattan_Merry-go-round and Major_Bowes shows)`` That Man in the White_House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!''
Systematically he would open and ransack drawers.
Separating, they took different sides of the main_drag and systematically combed the bars.
We scour literature for them; here we find stored the wisdom of great minds.