Example sentences of "i find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not too far away , I found a street with some shops and , thankfully , a cafe . |
| 3 | Next morning I found a note on my desk . |
| 4 | ‘ And I found a list of rules pinned to the larder door . |
| 5 | I found a piece of quarter-sawn oak in my wood store , which would do perfectly for the job . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I found a pineapple once . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was quite rough at times — and on one occasion , I found a body outside . |
| 10 | Eventually , I found a song on a scrap of paper by his bed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Eventually , I found a young hospital registrar who said , not entirely as a joke : ‘ I expect we 'll find a cupboard for her ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | I found a directory of poets in a famous West Side bookstore , the Gotham Book Mart , and idly turned the pages of American names . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | But I had to do my own asking round before I found a place to visit . |
| 17 | Last year I found a pure white form with black veins . |
| 18 | Where the fields began , a stream led into the River Suck , and here I found a row of tinker caravans . |
| 19 | Before long , I found a Bed and Breakfast , a squalid musty place of peeling lino , connected to a sweet shop . |
| 20 | However , in the twelfth century corner , I found a place where I could look through four archways at once , a soothing occupation . |
| 21 | A little further on , I found a marvellous public library , with a mural that showed the Battle of the Books , the war stirred up by St Columcille ( or Columba ) . |
| 22 | In the Roman Catholic cathedral next door , I found a baffled couple from Pennsylvania , who turned out to be in the wrong cathedral . |
| 23 | Luckily I found a window seat , as passengers with bags were struggling in . |
| 24 | Without difficulty I found a Bed and Breakfast house , equally smart and highly polished , and settled down for a pre-exploratory nap . |
| 25 | Outside the church , I found a taxi rank , jumped in a taxi and asked to be taken to the village that gave County Louth its name . |
| 26 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 27 | I found a piece of paper and left my own message : I 'VE BORROWED THE LAND ROVER TO FETCH GARETH 'S CAMERA . |
| 28 | A few miles outside Idar I found a meadow by the side of the Nahe where I could picnic . |
| 29 | ‘ I found a church with an amazing 12th-century carved stone altar in Beaujolais in a village called Avenas : Christ and the 12 apostles intricately carved , virtually intact . ’ |
| 30 | Tell them if e'er I found a straggling Ewe , |