Example sentences of "was find the " in BNC.
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1 | The best thing Tina Turner 's management ever did was to find the songs for her Private Dancer album . |
2 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
3 | Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place . |
4 | Her problem was to find the reason for her wanderings — was she botanist , naturalist , ethnologist , geologist , or , as Dea Birkett decides , a woman who had to make an impression ? |
5 | This meant that each small boy was accompanied to church by an older boy whose job it was to find the hymns and generally ensure good behaviour . |
6 | When at length they reached the expected doorway it was to find the door open . |
7 | In practice the solution was to find the right placement for the children , rather than try to help the parents , child or care staff to adjust to each other . |
8 | When Charlotte had finished , emphasizing how vital it was to find the document the kidnappers wanted , Natasha poured them both more tea before she made any remark . |
9 | The avowed programme of Montjoie was to find the link between various arts and to investigate their common tendencies , and Canudo invented the term ‘ cérébrisme ’ to describe this attitude : ‘ Montjoie is the mouthpiece of Cerebrist art , for Cerebrism , according to its own definition , embraces and explains the entire artistic evolution of our age during the past forty years , and in the widest sense , being an aesthetic that is indissolubly cerebral and sensual — against all sentimentality in art and life . ’ |
10 | As it transpired though , he was to find the lease of the le Fleming mines unavailable . |
11 | When I reached my office , cross and flustered , it was to find the office girls clustered round Mavis 's desk and Geoff Tulloch in the middle of them . |
12 | The first step in processing the typesetting tape was to find the mapping between the typesetting codes and the special characters . |
13 | Bridget knew how important it was to find the author of the letter . |
14 | Even even , okay , even if we the the reason that we need the output rate was to find the length of this bar . |
15 | Conversely , brokers could not act as jobbers ( and thus had ‘ single ’ capacity ) and their role was to find the best price from the jobbers for their customers . |
16 | During its restoration , a storm blew down a huge walnut tree in the roots of which was found the church 's bell , one of the oldest in Hungary . |
17 | In the North Isle of the Parish church of Newport painell in Buckinghamshire , in the yeare 1619 was found the body of a man whole and perfect ; laid downe , or rather leaning downe , North , and South : all the concauous parts of his body , and the hollownesse of euery bone , as well ribs as other , were filled vp with sollid lead . |
18 | Hammers and shovels used to disappear without trace , a newly laid stretch of track was found the following morning with all the wooden keys on the tunnel side all knocked out . |
19 | Antonio Gilvan da Cruz 's body was found the following morning . |
20 | They left the dance together and her body was found the next morning in a deep pool of water near a local footpath . |
21 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
22 | Witnesses working near the river bank in Gloucester where a body was found the next day , told the jury at Bristol Crown Court of hearing screams . |
23 | A mobile coastguard and the Cullercoats inshore lifeboat were called out but it was found the flare had been fired from the shore before youths were seen fleeing . |
24 | Her body was found the next February and a man , hospital radiographer Frederic Blancke , was charged with murder . |
25 | Just as the family was beginning to get over the tragedy , Dawn 's older sister , Sheila , 6 , vanished from home and was found the next day , drowned in a canal . |
26 | He was finding the wire hard to bend . |
27 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |
28 | Penny was usually a very bright and cheery Brownie , but she was finding the loss of her pet budgerigar very hard to bear . |
29 | Courtney reported how difficult the Cabinet Office was finding the task of procuring comparable figures from the various government departments and agencies for the annual review . |
30 | However , Katharine was finding the half-pass in trot quite difficult . |