Example sentences of "[vb past] find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 2 | I got to find Marie and get my trousers changed . |
| 3 | The long-overdue report from the Cairngorms Working Party is to be published next Friday after more than two years of debate and consultation which sought to find solutions to cope with increasing people pressure on the area . |
| 4 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton and McKinsey & Co. dominated this business , which sought to find guidelines for company regeneration and solutions for management problems . |
| 5 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 6 | They failed to find evidence that the operation of rule 80a delinked the spot and futures markets , although the operation of this rule led to a slight increase in futures price volatility and a minor reduction in the liquidity of the futures market . |
| 7 | The 10th UN-IAEA inspection on Feb. 3-13 into Iraq 's nuclear weapons failed to find evidence of a suspected secret underground plutonium facility capable of supplying several nuclear warheads a year . |
| 8 | The hunters failed to find Ralph and they returned back to their fort . |
| 9 | Some who failed to find work remained unemployed and dependent on family or charity ; others resorted to domestic contract outwork , where the conditions were just as bad as anything in nineteenth-century Europe . |
| 10 | This failure to find cross-modal priming was confirmed by Clarke and Morton ( 1983 ) and by Morton ( 1979 ) , who failed to find facilitation of visual word identification by prior auditory presentation . |
| 11 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 12 | The pound kept falling , Tony Benn failed to get into the shadow cabinet and 70 per cent of Britoil shares failed to find buyers . |
| 13 | There was surprise among dealers in the room that the fine and large pair of Lacroix de Marseille ‘ Morning ’ and ‘ Evening ’ ( lot 34 ) failed to find buyers : ‘ too big ’ was one verdict , which seemed to be justified by the success of a smaller pair two lots later ( £120,000 ; $192,000 ) . |
| 14 | For these reasons a number of highly estimated lots failed to find buyers while others far exceeded their estimates . |
| 15 | His polished blend of humour , encouragement and persuasion resulted in the sale of fifty-one lots for $19.4 million ( £12.9 million ) , but a further twenty-six lots failed to find buyers . |
| 16 | The rationale is that traditional financial institutions have in some way failed to find funds for these sectors , as outlined above . |
| 17 | She expected to find Lori 's head swimming into focus , close to her own , like a pale balloon and looked away in order to avoid that confrontation . |
| 18 | So were the robbers — they expected to find £2 million . |
| 19 | I expected to find interdependence , but no uniformity , in the Greek approach to the various nations and in the response of these nations ( when recognizable from our evidence ) to the Greek approach . |
| 20 | ‘ Mrs Wimbush tells me you expected to find Thorn House still a maternity home . |
| 21 | We reached Chelalo on the Arussi mountains in the afternoon of 5 October ; it was here that we expected to find nyala . |
| 22 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 23 | She expected to find Kathleen prostrated by the tragedy in her family , but although she spoke sadly of Cormac 's wasted life and her mother 's collapse , Kathleen seemed remarkably untouched by the tragedy . |
| 24 | I knew that Hannah had experienced problems with rodents so I expected to find rat runs and nests underneath the flags , but only mice had been there . |
| 25 | In 1826 Dunlop entered the Canada Company with John Galt [ q.v. ] , helped found Guelph , then founded Goderich , where he made his home while holding the post of warden of the forest . |
| 26 | Bill Clinton , during and after his campaign , promised to find budget savings by shortening the average maturity ( currently five years and ten months ) of the national debt by selling more short-term paper and less long-term . |
| 27 | He entered to find Edouard de Chavigny stretched out in an armchair , wearing cricket flannels , with a copy of John Maynard Keynes 's Treatise on Money open on his lap . |
| 28 | I pretended to find Matthew and I roused the family … ’ |
| 29 | They tried to find work where they could function well ; for example , a deaf person said she would avoid a position which involved treating patients in groups and would never work in a very large hospital . |
| 30 | Della tried to find work , but times were bad , and there was no work for her . |