Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] would find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I promised I 'd find the right man to save Swift and then marry him . ’ |
| 2 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 3 | When spring came he 'd find plenty to do in the garden . |
| 4 | Seb determined he would find time to have a long talk with her when his present hectic spell of work came to an end . |
| 5 | Also , once we started I 'd find it very hard to stop , and you may perhaps have forgotten I was due to race today ? ’ |
| 6 | Waiting for the explosion , for it all to start up over again , terrified she would find out . ’ |
| 7 | But even if Fen had gone ten miles , she swore she would find him . |
| 8 | They erm wa when we to we , we were staying at the Claremont and I do n't , oh , I think we just decided we 'd find a cup of coffee . |
| 9 | I never dreamed I 'd find an American beauty in the heart of Rome . ’ |
| 10 | If there was any popular support for Saddam Hussein anywhere in Iraq after the disasters of the war , I thought I 'd find it in the Sunni Moslem towns on the Tigris north of Baghdad . |
| 11 | Sophie sat down at Pascoe 's table and said , ‘ I thought I 'd find you here . ’ |
| 12 | I thought I 'd find out how you got on . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Thought I 'd find you here , Nurse Avery . |
| 14 | When Waterford Wedgwood Canada 's Gail Lilly volunteered to help out in a major international athletics event , she never dreamed she would find a pen-pal who would write to her from the other side of the world . |
| 15 | As Charlotte checked the pockets , she knew she would find nothing . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew you would find a way , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ We happened to be at the mortuary … not that it will make any difference , but there is one thing we thought you would find interesting . ’ |
| 18 | I thought you would find it of interest . |
| 19 | I thought you would find the paper informative and helpful . |
| 20 | Given your interest in the above issues , I thought you would find our views of interest . |
| 21 | Given your interest in the above issues , I thought you would find our views of interest . |
| 22 | ha I thought you 'd find that funny . |
| 23 | ‘ She set higher store by emotional security ’ than her sister , ‘ and thought she would find it with a man soft-hearted and caring and pliant , far removed , as she thought , from father 's toughness and uncontrollability . ’ |
| 24 | For a moment she thought she would find the courage to say something about it , but then she realised that the timing was all wrong . |
| 25 | ( My mother left South Africa and went to Lesotho when Lesotho became independent because she had become really depressed with South Africa and she thought she would find a niche and peace there . ) |
| 26 | Jessica announced she felt pissed and would have to go onto lemonade or leave the car outside the Amsterdam all night — which raised guffaws as to what she thought she 'd find left of it the morrow — and Mallachy offered to drive it home for her for twenty quid plus his taxi back , although he did n't have a licence . |
| 27 | So , we thought we 'd find out what young people want to know , and what they think of the education they 've had . |
| 28 | I think they thought they would find the treasure lying around on the beach ! |
| 29 | I thought they 'd find them sixty odd . |
| 30 | He meant he 'd find somewhere to doss down , and that included me . |