Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | As ever , Oscar took beauty where he could find it , and before setting off , halted to admire the spectacle . |
| 2 | Might I suggest that before he ponders further , Mr Jencks has a listen to the Peter Townshend song Wo n't Get Fooled Again , where he will find the line , ‘ Meet the new boss , same as the old boss ’ . |
| 3 | Before he makes wild aspersions about other people , he should visit the school in his constituency , where he will find excellent education going on . |
| 4 | When my right hon. Friend is making arrangements for his business in the second week in April , will he please include a visit to Edgware general hospital , where he will find patients , members of staff and doctors highly satisfied with the changes that have taken place in the national health service ? |
| 5 | One thing she was quite certain of — she was in love with Edward and that meant she would have to continue to let him — or he would find someone else who would . |
| 6 | It was only when Hurley called Coleman direct at the end of March 1988 , telling him to get his ass over there in a week or he would find somebody else , that Donleavy agreed to release him . |
| 7 | When the archbishop heard this he pretended that the king would not allow it to be done ; the pope , fired with the zeal of justice , ordered the archbishop in virtue of the obedience owed to him , not to delay longer in carrying this out or he would find himself suspended from his priestly office and his suffragans released from obedience to him . |
| 8 | Martin Luther , whose own convictions had been tempered and proved like the finest steel , knew well that in the hour of trial each man must have his own convictions , or he will find himself with none . |
| 9 | Another risk run by the shopkeeper who deals with a married woman is that he may find that , though she has property , her husband is insolvent . |
| 10 | In response to Henry Malt 's letter concerning health hazards relating to art , ( AIM/July 92 ) , there is a book called ‘ The Artist 's Complete Health and Safety Guide ’ by Monona Rossol that he may find useful . |
| 11 | ‘ If things are as you say , then a man can never be sure of his wife ; never be sure that he 'll find her there when he comes home at the end of the day . |
| 12 | ‘ That he 'll find , ’ said Osbern of Eu . |
| 13 | On the way it had occurred to him that he might find the police at Adam 's . |
| 14 | On the other hand , there is a fair chance that he might find a magic potion which will restore him to full strength and heal his wounds . |
| 15 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 16 | For the first time it occurred to Katherine as a conscious thought that he might find life with her mother a trial in ways which did n't only concern her . |
| 17 | I ventured on one or two occasions to suggest that he might find some way of dispensing with her services . |
| 18 | Mr Buchan is also a conoisseur of socialist folk-singing : he made it clear that he would find it hard to set the policy review to traditional music : ‘ I am a primeval socialist . ’ |
| 19 | The other was the knowledge , inexplicable and certain , like all knowledge in dreams , that he would find something deadly inside the last box . |
| 20 | No , there was no hope of her husband exploding with rage at the thought of leaving her and swearing that he would find a way to remain . |
| 21 | Secretly Sam vowed that he would find it again if it was the last thing he did . |
| 22 | Zbo had been impressed , when he convalesced in the south in 1916 , by the rich residents there and he believed , somewhat naïvely , that he would find important clients to buy his paintings . |
| 23 | We threw up our hands and bargained , and agreed that he would find two more travellers and we would each pay 200 bhat . |
| 24 | In the army , he had imagined that he would find comradeship , excitement and adventure in company with men of similar taste . |
| 25 | It was thus , when the weight of anxiety about his failed ambitions , his uncertain future , became too heavy that he would find his peace , standing motionless to watch the veined curve of the poised wave , the tumult of crashing foam breaking over his feet , the wide intersecting arches washing over the smooth sand as the wave retreated to leave its tenuous lip of foam . |
| 26 | At another time , He told her that she had conceived again , and when she , fearful that this would interrupt her ‘ contemplation ’ , asked how she should look after the child , Christ replied casually that he would find it a keeper . |
| 27 | I told Sir Paul that he would find a booklet describing the church in the bookstand . |
| 28 | He knew that he would find no police officer at the house . |
| 29 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 30 | He told the driver that he would find his own way back . |