Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] find [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd like to find some examples of that and to give the kids chances to talk and to argue their ideas where there is n't some mammoth answer stacked up on the shelves of a library somewhere .
2 With more time on your hands you may have to find more things to occupy your time : day trips , hobbies , societies .
3 But , instead of feeling sorry for yourself and resentful towards others , you should endeavour to find permanent solutions to problems that have overshadowed your day-to-day existence for some time .
4 With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch .
5 But , if he was n't going to give her more concrete help himself , she would have to find other allies .
6 That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere .
7 Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years .
8 If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments .
9 That 's right and he , we would have done the same if we 'd have found six men in there , er they all would have been secured until such time as I was happy that the the flat was clear .
10 Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species .
11 If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) .
12 Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game .
13 But then we would have to find separate words for every action or event denoted by different lexical verbs : a mammoth and unnecessary task .
14 I 'm sure that they could have found other examples where solicitors were not doing the job very well and were charging a lot of money because let's be realistic there are good solicitors and there are bad solicitors and I would n't pretend otherwise .
15 If they had really wished to do so , they could have found enough constituencies where Labour was a bad third and where the candidate him- or herself was willing to step down just before nominations closed .
16 Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton !
17 It continues , ‘ Had Mapplethorpe devoted part of his life to a celebration , not of sado-masochism but , say , Nazism — as did the talented German film-maker Leni Riefenstahl in the Thirties — it is hard to believe he would have found many advocates in the art establishment ’ .
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