Example sentences of "[noun sg] find [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she asked her Mum to find something for me . |
| 2 | ‘ The middle sister found her by the pool in their garden . |
| 3 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach . |
| 5 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 6 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 7 | But the book 's greatest association interest is that another , and greater , poet found it worth studying for its content and craftsmanship . |
| 8 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 9 | The Artisans and the main Aldeburgh club find themselves in separate halves of the draw at the semi-final stage to be played on June 27 at neutral venues . |
| 10 | A palaeontologist and a journalist find themselves in Callimba , where Cleopatra 's sister Berenice once reigned . |
| 11 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 12 | Good luck to all those , and there are dozens , who this spring find themselves beyond the dressing-room doors . |
| 13 | Yet when he seeks refuge in history , other men 's deeds and words , Gerontion finds nothing with which he can connect , only vacancy , vanity , and inane deception : the emptiness of the uninspiring , fragment-bearing wind that blows through much of Eliot 's poetry . |
| 14 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 15 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 16 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 17 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 18 | The judge found them to be in contempt and committed each to prison for a term of four months . |
| 19 | It must be sad and hurtful for any parent to find themselves in this situation , because the vast majority of us have nothing but our children 's good at heart . |
| 20 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 21 | From the point of view of certain owners , these diet-shifts are nothing but a nuisance , but if ever , for some dramatic reason , the cat found itself without its usual owner , they would stand it in good stead . |
| 22 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 23 | What if a council finds itself on the brink ? |
| 24 | ‘ Instead the council finds itself in an impossible position . ’ |
| 25 | We are always sad when a young international athlete finds himself in this situation . ’ |
| 26 | The more ‘ costly ’ your child finds it to be removed from the limelight or from whatever he/she finds rewarding about misbehaving , the more effective is time-out likely to be . |
| 27 | And while they played in the barn and while their mother sang the girl found something behind the haystack . |
| 28 | The outbreak of war found him in Australia where , with his teacher 's patronage , he was attending a meeting of the British Association as secretary of the anthropology section . |
| 29 | Evening found her in despair at the crude grey mass . |
| 30 | Wednesday evening found him in Belfast for the Annual Dinner of the Norther Ireland Section , attended by about 550 members and guests . |