Example sentences of "i find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to pick up my boots and rabbits , but I found somebody had nicked the bloody things . ’ |
| 2 | Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing . |
| 3 | As a professional campaigner I found its elitism deeply disturbing . |
| 4 | But as I rode out with the nation 's most prestigious hunt , I found its members the model of politeness . |
| 5 | And finally , when I scrutinised Master Southgate 's spur , I found its sharpness tinged with mercury . ’ |
| 6 | And Eva could n't leave the house without returning and saying , ‘ Hey , Haroon , I found something you might like ’ — a book on Japanese gardens , a silk scarf , a Waterman 's pen , an Ella Fitzgerald record and , once , a kite . |
| 7 | When I met Jean-Claude I found something in his face , his speech and gestures , that alerted my heart and made it a gift to him . |
| 8 | I found something a shade patronizing in her attitude , and I interpreted it as an attempt to upstage me ; perhaps to test me , to see if I was worth playing against . |
| 9 | I found something from the AIDS one the new Benetton advert , have you seen that ? |
| 10 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 11 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 12 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 13 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 14 | I found myself thinking affectionately that I ought to be straightforward with him ; the English liked that . |
| 15 | I found myself lying to her , although my lies seemed to me to represent the truth as soon as I was out of Aisha 's house . |
| 16 | Then I found myself shouting , inside my head , ‘ I 'll die of AIDS . |
| 17 | Instead I found myself thinking ‘ AIDS ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 19 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 20 | My work came out of the social situation within which I found myself … ’ |
| 21 | A year or so back I found myself sitting next to him , bearded in his old age and wearing plus fours , overall resembling a successful if slightly barmy countryman , at a ghastly new play at the Almeida . |
| 22 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 23 | I found myself talking to someone and watching him go to sleep on his feet . |
| 24 | And yet , alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema : the transition from day to night ; the day for night of the viewing ; the transition back to daylight . |
| 25 | I found myself thinking , ‘ old piano players never die , they just fade away . ’ |
| 26 | I found myself copying , as did everyone else who worked in the shop . |
| 27 | Although sympathetic to this heresy I found myself intoxicated but also somewhat inhibited by de Santillana 's impressionistic style . |
| 28 | In the midst of this unrelenting wave of depression , I found myself , dressed in a borrowed dinner jacket , on the M11 headed for Cambridge , where I was about to make my first ( and last ) appearance as an after-dinner speaker . |
| 29 | ( For some reason I found myself in Charlbury last week — about 15 miles from where I thought I was , and ought to have been ! ) |
| 30 | I found myself second curate in a large mission called Kibuye on the outskirts of Kisumu town . |