Example sentences of "[vb past] not find [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked for him but did not find him . |
| 2 | He was contacted by a mission from Force 136 who did not find him cooperative . |
| 3 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 4 | While they provide a context in which to appraise the changes made by the Act of 1935 , which was I think the purpose for which Mr. Whitaker cited them , I did not find them of direct assistance . |
| 5 | But the rest either did not find them so , or did not consider it relevant to their teaching of mathematics . |
| 6 | I did not find them in Giffen . |
| 7 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 8 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
| 9 | Phoebe could accept that , it was how grandmothers were meant to be , but when she turned to her friends , looking for guidance and inspiration , she did not find it . |
| 10 | The fact that the major period of growth for the Church was a result of the political conflict with liberal unionism meant that most of those who were attracted to the Church were aware of its high political profile and either positively endorsed it , or at least did not find it offensive . |
| 11 | I asked whether they did not find it inconvenient , living so near the French border , not to speak French , but they said not . |
| 12 | I did not find it light-hearted at all . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not find it the most co-operative of neighbourhoods , ’ Morton said wryly . |
| 14 | Lenin did not find it necessary to discuss the issue in his elaboration of the party programme in 1895–6 . |
| 15 | The music finally chosen helped greatly in creating a sombre mood , but John did not find it interesting or easy to work with . |
| 16 | And those who said they did not find it a strain expressed themselves for example as follows : |
| 17 | How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ? |
| 18 | But they did not find it in the hypothalamus . |
| 19 | She did not find it too difficult to go into a small shop — say , the local newsagent or the greengrocer at the corner of the street — as she was never too far from the window or the door . |
| 20 | I managed the skirt and made a start on the top , I did not find it easy with holding , four colours to change and the pattern to cope with . |
| 21 | Even the most conscientious writers did not find it easy to part with the picturesque view . |
| 22 | It appeared that Charles did not find it offensive . |
| 23 | It was contended by the Crown that the holder of a justice 's licence , which by virtue of his appointment as tenant the appellant might have been able to obtain , was the holder of an ‘ office ’ within the meaning of the Act ; but this court did not find it necessary to decide that point on the facts of the case . |
| 24 | Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case . |
| 25 | The court granted the order , holding that as a result of the retraction by P. of his statement , and his being an alleged accomplice , there was insufficient evidence against the applicant for the purposes of paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to the Extradition Act 1989 In the circumstances the court did not find it necessary to deal with arguments that no evidence had been adduced that the applicant had , at the time of the offences , been ‘ within the territory of the requesting party ’ as required by article 1 of the Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Sweden contained in Schedule 1 to the Sweden ( Extradition ) Order 1966 and that the magistrate had failed to consider whether the Swedish court had power to try the applicant for participation in offences in Sweden committed from outside its territory . |
| 26 | The others did not find it necessary , in reaching their decision that Reg. v. Guest , Ex parte Anthony and Reg. v. Gore Justices , Ex parte N. ( An Infant ) had been wrongly decided , to pronounce upon the correctness or otherwise of the decisions in Rex v. Sheridan and Rex v. Grant . |
| 27 | Yet this lone , beautiful , and sensitive actress who openly espoused Ibsen and portrayed his bold , modern women did not find it easy living in late Victorian Britain . |
| 28 | Ancient travellers did not find it easy to go into the interior of countries . |
| 29 | Almost as if her body did not find it natural to bear a child . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , although the case for the benefits of the retrospective conversion of the Library 's General Catalogue was accepted , SOED did not find it possible to fund the project in 1991–92 . |