11.   Searching for Ludlam, officers scoured the countryside, on foot and via helicopter.

12.   You recruit and recruit, scour the countryside in hopes of finding that one gem, the one player who makes a program.

13.   People scoured the countryside for food, eating wild grass, watery soups and even bugs.

14.   Elliott said road repair teams seemed incapable of doing any work before scouring surrounding countryside for wood and making themselves a meal.

15.   US troops continued to scour the countryside for the remnants of al-Qaeda and the Taliban amid rumors they might be regrouping in the eastern Afghan hills.

16.   Police in southern Thailand were scouring the countryside Thursday for the victim of a kidnapping -- a baby elephant.