1.   Police and volunteers are combing the countryside in the hope of finding the missing boy.

2.   RUFA students, on the other hand, seem genuinely committed to such projects as combing the countryside in search of elderly dancers who may have precious information.

3.   American troops are not taking part in the peacekeeping force, but are combing the countryside for al-Qaida and Taliban renegades.

4.   Authorities were combing the countryside for the remainder of the immigrants that were reportedly on the ship.

5.   Hundreds of national police and soldiers, supported by aircraft, combed the countryside in search of the escapees.

6.   Most people left in their own cars, although more than a hundred buses combed the countryside for anyone stranded.

7.   The police officers said they combed the countryside in line formation looking for evidence that could help determine the cause of the crash.

8.   Liliana Levy-Dutran said US and Panamanian authorities were combing the countryside in search of the missing Cubans.