1.   We combed the beach for shells.

2.   Claudia Kirschhoch became an avid bird-watcher and grew close to nature, the kind of person who often combed a beach for seashells, her sister said.

3.   Dierker was going to get paid for the last year on his contract, even if he spent it combing a beach and playing a mandolin.

4.   On the sand beneath my porch rail, three mallards, and Daisy the White Duck, are awake and going about their pre-dawn business of combing the beach.

5.   Torna and Guerra will continue to watch the site, and comb the beach for new artifacts.

6.   Was this a casual stroll, or someone combing the beach for food washed up by the storm?

7.   Officials said they took the threats in the letters seriously and ordered their beaches combed every night with metal detectors.

8.   Officers on foot and horse back, paramilitary border police, civil guard volunteers and city inspectors combed the beaches for suspicious objects, such as unclaimed bags.

9.   Police helicopters and special navy teams comb the beach and ensure that there are no violations of the ban against sea traffic near the prison island.

10.   The lightning struck as destitute residents of Bac Lieu township in southernmost Minh Hai province were combing a beach for edible cockles.