Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really did find that we sunk to the pits when we started circulating recipes for cheesecake on er poll tax er payers money , that is absolutely ludicrous and we should n't be spending money on that . |
| 2 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 3 | I never did find out what the seminar was about ! |
| 4 | I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence . |
| 5 | I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 . |
| 6 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 7 | Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge ! |
| 8 | I never did find Higon Cussi . |
| 9 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 10 | Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it . |
| 11 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
| 12 | We never did find his house did we ? |
| 13 | Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen |
| 14 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 15 | They never did find the bottom half . |
| 16 | They never did find Nisodemus again , even though a party of strong-stomached nomes went back much later and searched through the ruts and the mud . |
| 17 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |