Example sentences of "to find [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They showed me a bedspace and Alex went off to find me a tracksuit . |
| 2 | They keep saying they 're going to find me a house and say they 're going to buy me one . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , it 's terribly kind of you to find me a place to stay , but you must let me give you the money . |
| 4 | I was treated like a servant so I asked Freddie to find me a place of my own . |
| 5 | I contacted my social worker and told her that I could not stay at this place and that she would have to find me a Cheshire Home . |
| 6 | Hungary has appealed to foreign zoos to find them a home . |
| 7 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 8 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 9 | He details his daily struggle : trying to treat patients as he knows he can , yet unable to find them a hospital bed or specialist referral . |
| 10 | ‘ Let me see your jewels , I might be able to find you a buyer who will give you a good price . |
| 11 | ‘ Have to find you a change of clothes , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ Aye , got better than that , William Davies , ’ Hari said , ‘ come on , I might be able to find you a bit of soup as well as some bread . ‘ |
| 13 | ‘ You could explain to your editor and ask her to find you a collaborator , a ghostwriter . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He has gone to find you a room , ’ said the Feldwebel , sitting down in front of the fire and stretching his legs . |
| 15 | She went to find him a pen and paper to write something for her so she could see , she could even be able to tell his character from his writing . |
| 16 | Even Hun Sen , the Prime Minister , has asked the province committee to find him a village in Kep , according to Mr Sok Hay . |
| 17 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 18 | He pointed out that the council had arranged a private tutor for him while it worked on trying to find him a school . |
| 19 | Maybe a large catfish , or is it too late to find him a friend ? |
| 20 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 21 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 22 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 23 | It then took me an hour as she lay there sobbing to find her a bed . |
| 24 | I stopped to find her a name . |
| 25 | But I think we would have tried to find her a job rather more removed from mine , over time . ’ |
| 26 | Still reluctant to abandon her , he placed advertisements in the local paper in an effort to find her a job . |
| 27 | I had to find her a flat , move her in , go to the Electricity Board , and then her husband Monica 's one of those who need a mother , someone who takes her on An idea came into Alice 's head of such beautiful and apt simplicity that she began laughing quietly to herself . |
| 28 | Jotan 's sister was eighteen , and Burun was constantly aware that he would have to find her a husband before the year was out , otherwise she would be entitled to go with any man she chose . |
| 29 | As he reached the spot where Josh Cornock was likewise occupied , he heaved the elver scoop from the water and was delighted to find it a quarter full of the writhing silver baby eels . |
| 30 | And as for being fair , well , no one else ever seems to find it a problem . ’ |