Example sentences of "did [not/n't] find [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were brought aboard the ships , too — but the crews , despite so many months away from female company , did not find much sexually attractive about them . |
| 2 | By contrast , Britain did not find much support across the OEEC for its proposal to exclude agriculture from the free trade area . |
| 3 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 4 | Osman 's followers would have to get together ; and Owen would see that they did not find that very easy . |
| 5 | ‘ Strange , ’ Benjamin commented , watching me closely , ‘ the murderers did not find that . ’ |
| 6 | The letters to Greeves suggest that he did not find this part of a Christian 's duty very easy ( 'Daily Castration Prevents Master Bation' ) . |
| 7 | ( 5 April 1778 ) Mozart evidently did not find this type of work rewarding : |
| 8 | The presiding judge did not find this explanation acceptable and ordered the payment to be made within two days . |
| 9 | The Project Coordinating Team did not find this plan entirely acceptable , since the project did not permit the development of specifically " staff " resources nor the spending of money on some of the infrastructural resources under the first heading , and as a result the chairperson telephoned the school and explored alternative distributions . |
| 10 | ( HMI did not find this an important objective of existing appraisal schemes in the mid-1980s . ) |
| 11 | And I did not find this revelation consoling . |
| 12 | Although the application of NIPPV on a general ward has been described as a difficult and time-consuming procedure for nurses we did not find this to be the case . |
| 13 | FRS did not find any clear split between men and women . |
| 14 | Our study did not find any evidence of widespread dissatisfaction among older workers with either their employment or their employer prior to plant closure . |
| 15 | I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code . |
| 16 | However , this study did not find any differences in morbidity between the two groups . |
| 17 | Unlike in other studies we did not find any perceptible effect due to sex . |
| 18 | Platelet mRNA was used as a negative control , since we did not find any expression of this gene by RT-PCR or CE . |
| 19 | However , in the afternoon they did not find any suitable cottages to stay in , and it was too cold to sleep outside . |
| 20 | But we did not find any sign of Stapleton . |
| 21 | Although it noted the absence of satisfactory command structures and evidence of serious incompetence , the report did not find any evidence of police complicity in the massacre . |
| 22 | For example , Lenz et al found 5% and 10% ethanl to significantly stimulate gastric acid secretion whereas Singer et al did not find any stimulatory effect . |
| 23 | ‘ We have to hope they did not find any . ’ |
| 24 | You did n't find that stuff here . ‘ |
| 25 | I 'm looking for that er , you did n't ge you did n't find that planner did you ? |
| 26 | And you did n't find that difficult ? |
| 27 | I di last night when I was up there and he said to me what was that noise , I went through all the piles and I had a quick look in the bureau but , I did n't find that , I do n't know what I 've done with that |
| 28 | Malcolm Cole 's programme notes do n't specify the circumstances of the ‘ grim struggle for survival which left serious composition out of the question ’ for the first few years after he had settled in the United States in 1939 , but , whatever they were , they informed his music with an intensity that the exuberance of his early style did n't find much room for . |
| 29 | His six sons , by first wife Patti , did n't find much to laugh about at home . |
| 30 | Charles did n't find many sympathetic characters among the cast . |