Yes right, if you could provide some code snippet that would help us to understand your problem better.
But what I understand from your question is, you are trying to find a specific word or phrase in a column, if that is the objective, you could do that using CONTAINS key ward as below;
SELECT Comments
FROM ProductReview
WHERE CONTAINS(Comments, '"learning curve"')
The above SQL will return all the rows where Comments column has the specific phrase "learning curve", provided there is a full text index for the ProductReview table.
You could get more detail in MSDN site;
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142583.aspx