Example sentences of "find it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all . |
| 2 | When I revisited the place in 1974 , I found it at once grim and beautiful , at once an irrelevance to my present life and a painfully inevitable part of what I was , what I am , and what I always shall be . |
| 3 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , I found it at Royston . |
| 5 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 6 | and then er they they found it at the polic , the police station |
| 7 | Surely he had n't found it at last and with a girl less than half his age , intelligent but uneducated , promiscuous and burdened with an illegitimate child . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I have n't found it at all like that , ’ Merrill said airily , crossing her fingers beneath her handbag . |
| 9 | I WONDER whether Commonwealth students find it at all odd to attend an institution called ‘ Imperial College ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , a pattern , of course we may not find it at once — ’ |
| 11 | But I did n't find it at all difficult to come out to my student friends . |
| 12 | Similarly , the newly recruited engineer who six months previously was poring over the computer printout of a great new turbo-jet test run trying to find out why there was a short-fall in the power output will not find it at all easy if his first job is with a little four cylinder piston engine . |
| 13 | You 'll find it at Number 61 , by the way , if you want to check up . |
| 14 | ‘ We did n't find it at Ward 's house . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Look , if this is your idea of a joke , I do n't find it at all funny . ’ |
| 16 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 17 | er Monday when I get back , I ca n't find it at the moment . |
| 18 | It may reassure your readers who need protection from reality , but grown-ups must find it at best sloppy and at worst malicious . |