Example sentences of "[pron] find [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
2 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
3 | I found it the greatest fun . |
4 | I find myself the only thing is to change the subject . |
5 | ‘ I hope I find you the same . ’ |
6 | Tonight I find you the special number one steak , and the best wine . ’ |
7 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
8 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
9 | I grew away from the Church being a clergyman s son , of course , and now that I 've come back to it I find it the same only more so — fewer people and even more cups of tea . ’ |
10 | So can somebody find me the other one and I 'll looks , oh that 's alright . |
11 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
12 | Meryl wrote to tell us of Lena 's general kindness , saying she found her the most helpful and patient person she knew . |
13 | When she found it the scene was stark . |
14 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
15 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
16 | Unfortunately , the law is not particularly kind to the home-owner who finds himself the victim of a negligent surveyor ; in most cases he will not receive full compensation for his loss . |
17 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
18 | The further along the spectrum we find ourselves the more we need knowledge and wisdom to be able to handle the results . |
19 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
20 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
21 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
22 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
23 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
24 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
25 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
26 | But then , on 12 October , It found itself the target of a takeover . |
27 | And now he finds himself the man who carries the main hopes of millions of GP crazy Spanish fans . |