Example sentences of "they find the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Canadian frequently came to the net , so Petchey had to rely on his passing shots , but not enough of them found the mark . |
| 2 | ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had . |
| 3 | Starting with William Morris in the 1870s , a group of them found the medieval setting , craft traditions and stunning landsacapes they wanted in which to work . |
| 4 | It is hard for them to find the relevance to their lives of the words that are being used . |
| 5 | In order for them to find the blood vessels they must have some way of sniffing out nutrition , or fleeing from the products of metabolism . |
| 6 | He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution . |
| 7 | You start out with good intentions , helping with the homework , making it fun : you lay out the chocolate drops on the giant musical stave and challenge them to find the note ‘ B ’ and eat it : you run supportively alongside the wobbling bicycle , getting your ankles chewed up by sharp pedals . |
| 8 | The next day they found the courage to collect Lizzie 's ashes and bring them home . |
| 9 | Sister Jane Anne , one of the monastery 's 14 nuns , said that they found the ministry 's statement ‘ very strange ’ . |
| 10 | Despite their scepticism , readers said they found the press useful , particularly for guiding their voting decision if not for providing information . |
| 11 | They found the system of being a day-boy unsatisfactory . |
| 12 | When the girls came down they found the room already warm , the fire lit , the kettle steaming . |
| 13 | Mind you , they found the lorry both times . |
| 14 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 15 | They found the spot several years later . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It was near there they found the body , ’ Jos said . |
| 17 | They found the canteen door barricaded , Leila and the others hiding inside . |
| 18 | They found the body . |
| 19 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 20 | Both men , however , had to suffer a day of ups and downs — including two engine failures in the morning on their new ‘ high-tech ’ MP4/7A race cars — before they found the pace in the afternoon . |
| 21 | They found the paintings in one of those rough antique shops in Brighton . |
| 22 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 23 | They found the stand-pipe , and joined the queue . |
| 24 | One morning the constables arrived , but the birds had flown , and they found the offices empty . |
| 25 | They found the jacket had been bleached — forensic laboratories could find no trace of blood . |
| 26 | There , less than three inches below the surface , they found the body of Rhoda Anne Carter . |
| 27 | They found the factory of J. K. Livesey & Co. in Ratcliffe Lane , Stepney , near the Regent 's Canal dock . |
| 28 | On the night of 30 January they were not to reach this sought-after retreat without problems , for they had first to call at the Palace of Saint Cloud itself where on arrival they found the entire Imperial Household drawn up to receive them and , equally clearly , determined to stay to dinner . |
| 29 | That was before they found the patches of damp on their own kitchen and bathroom ceilings , which , when touched with a finger , smelled unmistakably of cat-piss . |
| 30 | They found the brassiere under the bed and Jo let him hook it up at the back for her . |