Example sentences of "[pron] find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This poem helped me to find a way back into my own poetry . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ the Doctor began , ‘ first I 've got your General Fakrid barking at me to find a way to polish off these eight twelves . |
| 3 | Turning to his sister , he instructed , ‘ Let me know if you need me to find a dressmaker . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They got down to forty-five-second intervals , and I asked Gabrielle if she 'd mind not giving birth until the end of the episode , but she told me to find a nurse — fast . |
| 5 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 6 | In the Shropshire parish of Myddle between 1541 and 1701 nearly everyone found a husband or wife within a 10-mile radius of his or her dwelling and most partners came from within the neighbourhood that was centred upon the market towns of Shrewsbury , Ellesmere and Wem ; only the gentry sought wives or husbands from a slightly wider area . |
| 7 | Highlander staff wanted to get back to somewhere near where they started from ; that is , working with struggling communities in the mountains , helping them to find a voice , to articulate their problems clearly , and in realising the nature of their problems , to take positive action to solve them . |
| 8 | It enables them to find a suitable assistant and agree with them the hours , times and tasks required . |
| 9 | In the eyes of good practitioners self-control allows them to find a path around conflict . |
| 10 | Some are combatants and others work in agriculture , They describe their music as giving culture back to the people , allowing them to find a new identity and respect for their collective cultural history . |
| 11 | Nevertheless all found an authority in their relationship to God which enabled them to find a means of articulating it . |
| 12 | ‘ In the case of others , having this qualification might help them to find a job . ’ |
| 13 | If Ah remember rightly , he says the Gómez family already had Irish connections , so it was fairly simple fur them to find an impoverished landowner with a beautiful daughter goin' spare . |
| 14 | Juliet could have asked someone to find a phone for her , to get a taxi , but she was aware that she was trembling , near to tears , and she did n't want people to ask questions . |
| 15 | In a village near Amiens , I found a shop where you can still get tea , and enough cakes to make a schoolboy sick for a week . |
| 16 | Not too far away , I found a street with some shops and , thankfully , a cafe . |
| 17 | Next morning I found a note on my desk . |
| 18 | ‘ And I found a list of rules pinned to the larder door . |
| 19 | I found a piece of quarter-sawn oak in my wood store , which would do perfectly for the job . |
| 20 | Fat fish in laburnum ( above ) ‘ I have always made things , ’ says Ned , ‘ and while on a boating holiday on the Thames about 15 years ago I found a branch of very dark wood lying on the ground . |
| 21 | I found a pineapple once . |
| 22 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 23 | It was quite rough at times — and on one occasion , I found a body outside . |
| 24 | Eventually , I found a song on a scrap of paper by his bed . |
| 25 | The walk was scheduled to depart from Green Park Tube , and when I arrived I found a group of thirty or so walkers already tapping their feet . |
| 26 | Eventually , I found a young hospital registrar who said , not entirely as a joke : ‘ I expect we 'll find a cupboard for her ’ . |
| 27 | In the book I found a Spanish proverb that runs , No se ganó Zamora en una hora — ‘ Zamora is n't reached in an hour ’ , which is the equivalent of our ‘ Rome was n't built in a day ’ . |
| 28 | I found a directory of poets in a famous West Side bookstore , the Gotham Book Mart , and idly turned the pages of American names . |
| 29 | ‘ I found a good place on the bus , on the top deck , right at the front , where you can feel the warmth coming up through a grating ’ ( here and there a head nodded understandingly ) ‘ and see the view . |
| 30 | But I had to do my own asking round before I found a place to visit . |