Example sentences of "[verb] find a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
| 2 | In some cases , the environment is so constant , or the animal can live in such a wide range of environments , that once an animal has found a suitable place to live in it will not need to move far to satisfy all its bodily wants . |
| 3 | One of the pulsar 's original discoverers , Stanislav Djorjovski , reported finding a brighter star coinciding with the pulsar last November . |
| 4 | I tiptoed to find a sacred vessel to keep your hair in , mouth humming with its knowing:you were here , with me , loving me , kissing me , holding me and could be no closer . |
| 5 | Early this morning she woke to find a masked gang standing in her bedroom . |
| 6 | We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers . |
| 7 | Even though I 'd found a fine lady to take care of him . |
| 8 | Well we 've got to find a new supplier have n't we ? |
| 9 | Everton 's most successful captain has had to put his career on hold after failing to find a suitable club following a spell in the Scottish Premier League with Dundee earlier this season . |
| 10 | The chances are that Britain will have to find a new place to dump waste by the end of the decade . |
| 11 | Despite the broad nature of the changes , however , the results were perceived by many as change for the sake of change , rather than as the result of the President having found a new formula to deal with the main problems of inflation , the breakdown in government services and the poor state of the economy . |
| 12 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 13 | Stop whatever you are doing and try to find a quiet place to sit down . |
| 14 | If so , try to find a different position to suit you both . |
| 15 | Now they 're being allowed to keep their jobs for 2 more months , while the Council tries to find a private company to run the workshop on its behalf . |
| 16 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 17 | The Electricians Union was prepared to follow the AUEW and , already faced with the breakaway Democratic Miners ' Union in Nottingham , the TUC was forced to find a face-saving formula to avert a possible split . |
| 18 | However , in compensation I did find a nice silver hammered halfpenny of Henry V and a few rose farthings . |
| 19 | ‘ The last time we saw you , ’ Prue says to him , as she ladles the haricots around his gigot , ‘ you were just desperately trying to find a second line to go after ‘ Goe , and catch a falling starre . ’ |
| 20 | In the garden you will see them nosing around trying to find a new place to dig a hole . |
| 21 | Ghatak saw himself as groping , experimenting with each film , trying to find a new form to say something new , now picturesque , now documentary , now epic , now experimental , now melodrama . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 23 | The Far East leg of the women 's circuit offers prize-money in excess of £60,000 and the Scot , who is already supported by the Fife company , Donaldson Timber , is hoping to find a major backer to finance the trip . |
| 24 | Its pressure paid off , but Whitehall had to find a face-saving formula to cover its miscalculation . |
| 25 | Our first problem was one the water was quite cold and so everyone had to find a wet suit to fit them , which caused a slight problem . |
| 26 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 27 | They drove towards Ashdown Forest , and even before they had found a suitable place to stop , Charlotte had begun to recount the events of the past week in such detail that it was obvious she was holding nothing back . |
| 28 | They had found a small table tucked in between three long ones , and had already been given a jug of iced water , a long loaf , a pot of butter and a plate of olives . |
| 29 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 30 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |