Example sentences of "find [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It amounts to the ‘ best ’ statistical description of the process determining which Barro could find for the period covered by his data . |
| 2 | After that I read every book I could find about the rise and fall of the Dervish Empire . |
| 3 | Love will find out the way , she thought , though it was a little difficult to picture Rupert like the lover in the poem , galloping over the earth and swimming the seas to reach the loved one , especially as he had not as yet shown much sign of loving either of the two women . |
| 4 | Erm , on , I put in because it was the worst example I could find of the abuse of psychoanalysis for destroying somebody 's personality , personality assassination by , by er a psychoanalysis . |
| 5 | People had no option but to sit on desks or wherever they could find behind the counter . |
| 6 | Check out a parchment that you 'll find near the cavern entrance — this contains the aim of your quest , which changes every time you play . |
| 7 | If the court or the arbitrator should find against the validity of the expulsion , the injured partner should as a matter of common sense be given the opportunity of retiring from the firm on short notice : relations with those party to an attempt to expel him could scarcely be expected to remain harmonious . |
| 8 | Apart from what the customer may or may not find with the price of beer , is it not the case that what the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) has described would not have taken place if the beer orders had not been passed by the House ? |
| 9 | The only flaw I can find with the Alpamayo is that the hipbelt wo n't fit small waists ( those much below 80cm ) . |
| 10 | The main fault I can find with the vehicle is the cab noise at speeds over 40 mph , ( it will only do 60mph ) I know the Land Rover was never meant for motorways but we plan on taking it on our holiday , is it normal for gearboxes to sound like they are going to fly out of the window or do I have a fault ? |
| 11 | However , these reformers found , just as others would find within the framework of the national labour exchange system after 1910 , that the economic reality of the free market in labour was always the more influential factor . |
| 12 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 13 | Petrol , food and a few tools had been his biggest expenses so far , and if the budget started to tighten he 'd have to stop buying food and see what he could find in the woodland around him . |
| 14 | I do n't think that 's kind of less what you 'd find in the Sun because of twenty million college goes up in flames . |
| 15 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
| 16 | The Tequila Slammer , which you probably wo n't find in the Cocktail Recipe books , was almost certainly invented by some loony Hooray in a flash cocktail bar somewhere as a means of using up cheap tequila . |
| 17 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 18 | He knew what he 'd find in the wardrobe upstairs if he ever had to search the place . |
| 19 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 20 | Chris always ends his visits by asking children not to disturb or try and touch snakes they may find in the wild . |
| 21 | Given what has already been said about identity , it is unlikely that we shall find in the anorexic a unity of text . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's what you 'd find in the back of any van out in the country , as you said . ’ |
| 23 | A first clue that the meaning-relations are not the same in the active and passive voices is the existence of a certain controversy about the meaning of the passive construction , something one does not find in the case of the active . |
| 24 | ‘ Food and drink you will find in the kitchen , ’ said the little grey man . |
| 25 | While still in London I would wake in the night to find the bed devoid of Nigel , whom I would find in the kitchen , drinking tea and pacing the floor . |
| 26 | a ) Circle all the words you can find in the word square , count them and fill in your total in the space on the form . |
| 27 | All entries showed imagination and , more to the point , a keen enjoyment in the task of cramming in as many obscure and erudite words as you could find in the dictionary . |
| 28 | Then he ordered Ram to serve out the reddest shot he could find in the furnace , watched it loaded and , motioning the pensioners back , himself took the portfire and touched it to the vent . |
| 29 | ‘ My family never know what they will find in the oven , ’ she says . |
| 30 | Say you 're the nearest I can find in the book , Filton I should try . |