Sentence examples for we were searched from inspiring English sources

Pires remembers it well: "When we were searched, the Spanish police looked at the brand of our shirts.

We were searched and the contents of our pockets were put in plastic bags around our necks.

The work begins in spectacularly abrupt fashion, with slashing chords and the words "The next day in the city jail we were searched for drugs".

The car was searched and we were searched, and then we drove through a slalom course of obstacles and another security gantlet before being ushered into an immense tent with a lavish buffet.

As a leaf in a gust of wind, so the other Mary begins her story in mid-air, almost mid-sentence, a vortex of brutal music swirling around her dominated by harp and piano in percussive mode: "The next day, in the city jail, we were searched for drugs," she tells us, breathless and urgent.

"The security measures were complicated and there were many checkpoints where we were searched, but we realized that there are a large number of visitors and we knew that all these measures are there to protect us," said Sabih Qassim, 48, one of the pilgrims.

Offensively we were searching.

We were searching for eyewitnesses.

We were searching for shade everywhere.

We were searching for help and there was none.

"We were searching for an identity last year," quarterback Kerry Collins said.