Example sentences of "[pers pn] have to find [adj] " in BNC.

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1 First , while the water was boiling , I had to find some piece of stout wood to hold the boy 's dropped foot in the proper position — ‘ the position of function ’ as Reid had called it .
2 Then you go back and you think : ‘ Well , although I 've done my best , maybe I have to find that little bit extra as a black person . ’
3 I have to find another flat , a quiet one , or else a country cottage where Marcus can be a hermit .
4 I have to find this doctor . ’
5 ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers .
6 If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose .
7 So she has to find another way of providing music for the midnight service .
8 But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available !
9 And then she saw him talking to Edward and Jean Powers and then someone had mislaid their glass and she had to find another and then there was the problem of the Taylors and old Mrs Phipson .
10 She had to find some other way to save Angel 's precious little life , and find it quickly .
11 When your potential catchment is broader based you have to find additional ways of drawing them in .
12 We need a signature one signature on unless of course the company says that two people have got to sign it but you have to find that out .
13 If you 're unhappy and miserable because you 're lonely , then you have to find other ways to address that than going out and buying something to wear , or getting drunk .
14 You have to find other ways to develop it . ’
15 He concluded by saying that if you believe in God you have to find other ways to convince people that He exists , and that was not something to be discussed in this lesson .
16 Because you have to find all the literature everywhere it 's printed what the problems is where the printed picture comes from
17 I suppose you have to find some other method .
18 And having done that , you then need some people , in fact , so you do need the two types of people and if you are the team leader , you have to find some way of getting them to work together .
19 The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task .
20 We had to find other diversions .
21 Calling out our imaginary names we had to find each other .
22 We had to find six words out of a newspaper .
23 We had to find seven living animals on Brown Owl 's farm .
24 Having dealt successfully with the dreaded cupboard under the stairs , we had to find another situation for Sylvia to cope with .
25 Molby said : ‘ I prefer to play in midfield but with the injuries we have got we have to find other ways .
26 ‘ At college , we have to find tall skinny people to try our designs on .
27 In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ?
28 We know that in these cases we often do face a real choice of evils and we have to find some way of deciding which of these evils is the worst .
29 Clearly we have to find some way of using these data without assuming that rats , for example , are just very small people .
30 To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it .
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