1.   Mothers have been to every shop in town in a vain search for the toy.

2.   Bullzdozers and backhoes pried loose clumps of earth, as rescue workers shoveled into crannies and craters in a vain search for survivors.

3.   Children rooted through the mess in a vain search for any books that survived.

4.   Students were summoned to the school auditorium and questioned in a vain search for the instigator.

5.   The angry crowd tore it apart in a vain search for drugs.

6.   The fishermen here were among the first to head out into the night, choking on the noxious fumes of jet fuel in a vain search for survivors.

7.   Helicopters were flown over eucalyptus and tapioca plantations in a vain search for the men, Pol Maj Gen Pirom Bunrodpanit said.

8.   She and young men around her say police beat some men and turned their houses upside down after the shooting in a vain search for weapons.

9.   The vain search has sparked rumors that the congressman has fled abroad via the south.