Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me to find you and to offer you his apologies and regrets . |
| 2 | She asked me to find out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At their recent meeting the parish council asked me to find out whether the Ramblers ' Association is contemplating appealing against this decision . |
| 5 | The cleaner upstairs , she asked me to find out what kind of cakes everybody liked cos she 's buying every single person an individual , like you know , a single cake for everybody . |
| 6 | He bought a quantity believing they were Ecstasy , but when he tried them found that they were another drug altogether . |
| 7 | ‘ He used me to find out about Madge , about Mr Bishop and you as well . |
| 8 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 9 | The English porters , who are generally friendly , helped them to find their luggage : brown paper parcels and cardboard boxes and suitcases tied together with string . |
| 10 | The area has encouraged entrepreneurs and investors since the late 1930s when engineering professor , Frederick Terman , the acknowledged ‘ father of Silicon Valley ’ , attracted engineers and scientists from the east and helped them find money for their work . |
| 11 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 12 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 13 | This poem helped me to find a way back into my own poetry . |
| 14 | If I stopped I found that she 'd immediately close them again . |
| 15 | When I tried I found I could n't , but Bri took pity on me and we spent hours playing cards . |
| 16 | It seems that a few years ago Mrs Brissett 's daughter 's husband left her and she had trouble finding a job and had no money … and Harriet helped her find a job somewhere . |
| 17 | She paid for my mother to take French lessons and helped her find work as a seamstress with various drapers in the city . |
| 18 | Circumstances helped her find her true métier . |
| 19 | Desperation to escape also helped her to find her way through the labyrinth of passageways , up to her room on the second floor . |
| 20 | The children helped him find a better cure , too . |
| 21 | It helped him find his long-lost daughter . |
| 22 | He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house . |
| 23 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 24 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 25 | Curtis telephoned the seamen 's shelter and asked somebody to find Titch and get him to ring back . |
| 26 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | And when morning came I found I was n't half a mile from where I 'd started . |
| 29 | But when my eighth birthday came I found it among my presents , with a little card from my father . ’ |
| 30 | Victory when it came I found tasteless , I was ashamed to be envious of air crews who were able to turn up at reunions with a crew intact , and they still can even 40 years on , and relive those cruel yet wondrous days when the composition of a crew was as binding as the sanctity of marriage . |