Example sentences of "find [pers pn] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lean times were to follow and three years later we find him using the backs of sheets of his Jedburgh map to draw a privately commissioned plan . |
| 2 | The Admiral , whose office dates from the end of the thirteenth century , has at first no jurisdiction apart from the discipline of the fleet , but in the course of the fourteenth century we find him assuming a jurisdiction to punish crimes , such as piracy , committed at sea , as well as a civil jurisdiction over shipping and commercial matters . |
| 3 | Though we find him joining the cut and thrust of conference debate , or delivering polemical lectures , we also glimpse a man apart , and in an intellect of such stature , it is tempting to describe him as aloof . |
| 4 | ‘ If we find it leaving the island will be easy . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I find it frustrating the way we 're perceived by a lot of people , ’ explains Jim Bob . |
| 6 | It has hardly passed my lips when I find it prospecting the inside of my head . |