Example sentences of "[noun] they [modal v] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
| 2 | Shortly after , Roman troops ran amok in Jerusalem , murdering all Jews they could find , including women and children . |
| 3 | ‘ They were wiping out all the Jews they could find . |
| 4 | The Germans were highly organized , she said , pushing the blue-and-white enamelled iron back and forth : they hunted up all the Jews they could find . |
| 5 | By presenting us with the most degenerate images they could find , those campaigns made us feel comfortingly distant from it all . |
| 6 | Chris always ends his visits by asking children not to disturb or try and touch snakes they may find in the wild . |
| 7 | As Cruising Altitude is at his very best and is favoured by the weights they will find him very difficult to beat . |
| 8 | Encouraged by his enthusiasm the people of Deogarh had given every rupee and paisa they could find to raise the share capital for the co-operative . |
| 9 | ‘ They carefully chose the oldest bloke they could find to handle the rod , ’ Barbara recalls . |
| 10 | Perhaps if people were given access to this equipment they would find that they were able to spend their time in the centres a little more positively . |
| 11 | Appeals will surely ensue but in the meantime we may well sympathise with those Soprintendenze who feel tempted to put all restoration work on hold in the fear that in carrying out their proper duties they may find themselves being sentenced as criminals . |
| 12 | In such circumstances they may find it comparatively easy to become , or to be seen as , innovators . |
| 13 | Not half a mile along the road from the ruins of Milcom Moloch they would find the ruins of a burned-out taxi-cab . |
| 14 | Where 's the mo li unlikely place they 'll find us . |
| 15 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 16 | THE lovers parked the car in the darkest place they could find , on the edge of a bank . |
| 17 | One of the rebels , vice-chairman Ronnie Teese , 56 , who has been banned for 12 months , said the club was ‘ terrified of the can of worms they might find ’ . |
| 18 | If they read a few textbooks they would find out that more major medical advances have depended on animal studies . |
| 19 | Some prefer to feed from the tank bottom , or the midwater level , however , and if we do not cater for these fish they may find all the food gets eaten before any sinks down to them . |
| 20 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 21 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 22 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 23 | The editors revelled in the honour , ate their lunches and went back to their offices to continue publishing every last tit-bit they could find . |
| 24 | They needed any friend they could find , for Japan had no intention of making any real concessions . |
| 25 | Having a distinctive view about the origin of personality , as well as the structures they might find , these survey users were not nearly so preoccupied with representative samples , but rather with analyses showing intercorrelations between sets of attitudes and other social behaviour . |
| 26 | Over on the heavy clays of Sussex , farmers needed a heavy plough animal and selected the nearest cattle they could find ( that was , from Wessex ) for shoulder muscle and draught power . |
| 27 | Er but if they 're a sensing thinking person they will find it almost totally incomprehensible , that you 've been so lax as not to have actually worked out in detail erm you know what their job is ? |
| 28 | The men ran round the church seizing any lamp they could find . |
| 29 | That that again , if you if you were able to say that 's gon na happen , that will that will that must be given priority , but there 's no guarantee they can find it . |
| 30 | They must have got rid of all the junk they could find in their store-rooms . |