Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] would find " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Seb determined he would find time to have a long talk with her when his present hectic spell of work came to an end . |
| 3 | Waiting for the explosion , for it all to start up over again , terrified she would find out . ’ |
| 4 | But even if Fen had gone ten miles , she swore she would find him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As Charlotte checked the pockets , she knew she would find nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew you would find a way , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I thought you would find it of interest . |
| 10 | I thought you would find the paper informative and helpful . |
| 11 | Given your interest in the above issues , I thought you would find our views of interest . |
| 12 | Given your interest in the above issues , I thought you would find our views of interest . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | I think they thought they would find the treasure lying around on the beach ! |
| 17 | The hand started pushing through the window at the pile of books , and I knew it would find me and catch hold of me again . |
| 18 | At first he gave the somewhat fatuous explanation that he thought he would find it easier to ride his bicycle without his testicle ( the other testicle was small due to atrophy ) . |
| 19 | But surely if they did they would find it easily enough . |
| 20 | Your servant said I would find you here . |
| 21 | Pamela agreed that she would benefit from having new friends and said she would find out about youth clubs that existed in her area . |
| 22 | She also said she would find out more information about a few of them for me . |
| 23 | He had told her she needed professional help , and he hoped she would find it . |
| 24 | When the Ewe of Bé called for guns , the Kabye said they would find guns too . |
| 25 | But Soviet deputy farm minister N Averyanov said they would find it difficult to make up the deficit from imports because of the lack of hard currency . |
| 26 | A homeless woman said they would find conditions ‘ not good enough for dogs ’ . |
| 27 | After my mother had obligingly betrayed all my confidences to him in my hearing , he said he would find the man — Michael , that is — and compel him to marry me . |
| 28 | The Frenchman spoke the final words in a tone that suggested he would find it disagreeable to discuss the subject further , and the senator lapsed into silence . |