Example sentences of "to find [conj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He undertook the huge task of searching into Coleridge 's past and trying to find where the images of his poetry came from . |
| 2 | We were surprised to find that the plinths used for exercise and as tables during the day are their beds at night ! |
| 3 | Any foreign manager arriving in Britain is amazed to find that the permutations of Ford Sierra , Vauxhall Cavalier and the like that he must offer his staff now define the pecking order in British society . |
| 4 | More especially , I wondered at their risk when I learnt that some of them had landed across the Channel and were astonished to find that the natives did not speak English . |
| 5 | They were later surprised to find that the Misses Dolan had left wills , leaving the house and contents , except for some specific bequests , to Margaret ‘ for her devoted care of us ’ , and a cabinet containing a doll 's china tea-set and porcelain figures which she had played with ‘ to our darling Molly ’ . |
| 6 | It might come as a surprise to find that the Kalkadoons would use two different words in these circumstances — a kili in fabric but a ndia in the ground . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not myself feel justified in attaching much weight to the tenuous evidence upon which we were invited to find that the plaintiffs made their payments because of apprehensions induced by words or conduct of state officials that vehicles would or might be seized and detained under section 47 . |
| 8 | I know it 's a small point , but how many times have you tried to access the truss rod on a guitar , only to find that the screws are located immediately under the strings and that inserting a screwdriver is nigh on impossible without de-tuning ? |
| 9 | So many returners admit to stage fright at the beginning of a re-entry programme , only to find that the expectations of managers and colleagues are much more realistic than they have given them credit for . |
| 10 | With such a wide range of adaptations it is not surprising to find that the shapes of bivalves are highly varied — some are globular , others flat and plate-like , some like razor shell ( Ensis ) have become greatly elongated to avoid burrowing , and some in forms of the usual ‘ mirror image ’ symmetry has been lost . |
| 11 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
| 12 | If you 've ever come home with newly bought make-up only to find that the colours do n't really suit you , take heart . |
| 13 | The magistrates were held entitled to find that the constables were not private friends at the certificate-holder bona fide entertained by him , and to convict him of a contravention of subs . |
| 14 | Or schools get very excited by computer-assisted learning , ordering equipment and retraining teachers — only to find that the pupils , so full of enthusiasm three years ago , have totally lost interest , while the ‘ experts ’ are once again suggesting that it was n't such a good idea after all . |
| 15 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 16 | The year 1887 was a good one for Hardy : he and Emma paid a long-awaited visit to Italy which left him ‘ much illuminated ’ , and returned to find that The Woodlanders , with its intensely magical evocation of ‘ one of those sequestered spots outside the gates of the world ’ , had become a popular success . |
| 17 | In April last year managing director Hugh Collinson revealed that , during his holidays in the Virgin Isles , he had been miffed to find that the runways at the local airport were not long enough to take Airtours ' jets . |
| 18 | We all arrived on Tuesday to find that the offices were completely unfurnished , without lighting , without telephone and without any equipment of any sort . |
| 19 | However , Tess began to find that the cows which came to her usually happened to be her favourites . |
| 20 | Once she had visited a friend who had a room in a house in North London ; she had accompanied her friend into the small back garden , and had been deeply shocked to find that the walls dividing the row of small terraced gardens were only two feet high . |