He slid from bush to bush hiding in shadows among rocks and trees as he painstakingly examined the area for signs of uninvited guests.

In three hourlong installments the filmmakers painstakingly examine the evolution of race discrimination, from Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" to restrictions in the postwar suburban development of Levittown on Long Island.

She hung desperate in the moment, trying to stay right there, and late that night, painstakingly examining her day, she thought of this as her last moment of innocence.

There, in the shadows of the back seat, he painstakingly examined the pistol Fleming had provided him.

Three men in heavy rubber boots were painstakingly examining the rubble and undoubtedly trying to pinpoint the source of the blaze.

I moved a surgical lamp closer to the left temporal area, using a lens to painstakingly examine what appeared to be hemorrhage in tissue that had been spared.

Wong, Haselhuhn and Ormiston painstakingly examined the financial performance and chief executive facial measurements of General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Nike and 52 other publicly traded Fortune 500 organisations for the period 1996-2002.

They returned to the mouth of the pipe, using remote-sensing equipment to painstakingly examine the entire run of the pipe.

The underwater photos were reportedly obtained by painstakingly examining the loch depths with sonar for unusual underwater activity.

It allows anyone a chance to make a claim and obliges the state to look after them while officials painstakingly examine it.