Keyword search with exact phrase

When I use the filter bar to search for photos I normally don't find myself in this situation. But now when the photos reaches 10 000+ this will be a problem. The searchfunction in LR does not support serching for an exact phrase like the exact phras "Tom". Exactly "Tom" not "Tommy" or "Romtomtom" or anything else containing "Tom".
The problem appears when I want to search for this exact phrase. I have a real example. I took picture on a golfcompetition called Roland Cup. The founder of the Cup is called Roland. He is not on all pictures of course. The problem occurs when I want to search for the pictures of the founder Roland. If I search with the textfield with is by far the fastest way and type "Roland" I get all the pictures from the competition. That's not how I want it.
Another example for clearance. Let's say that I take pictures of tomatoes and of course set the keyword "tomato". Later I take pictoures of tomato soup. And keyword it just "tomato soup". Then I want to search for the tomato soup pictures. Of course I now get all the pictures of the soup and the tomatoes.
Does anyone have any tip how to do without changing the persons keyword to "Roland Andersson" which is the obvious solution?

Thanks Ian,
Your answer is part of my answer. Let's say that I took photos in Salt Lake City (classic example huh?). And in Salt Lake City I took pictures of a lake. I keyworded all my photos from Salt Lake City with "Salt Lake City" of course and all my pictures of lakes with lake, of course.
Now I want to filter all my photos of lakes from all over the world. I then search for - what? If I search for "lake" I get all pictures of lakes and all pictures from Salt Lake City. Not good.
And if I want to see the lakephotos in Salt Lake City, how do I perform that search in a good way?
Maybe I'm getting you wrong with the + and !. If I do, can you give me an example how to use them in this Salt Lake City problem.

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