Example sentences of "[pers pn] find [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
2 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
3 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
4 | I write now as I found at the time . |
5 | For guitars I just used the Jaguar and a Broadcaster-type thing made for , I think , Jerry Donahue , which I found at the studio . |
6 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
7 | ‘ Is the candle at Paul 's church connected with the one Julia and I found at the asylum out-house ? |
8 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
9 | Very , very quickly , can I just say , that in the er , consultat in the , in the work I did in the , which led to the production of the report , and the many , many people I talked to , some of whom I , I see around the table , I found on the one hand , ample evidence throughout the county authorities , the health authority , the district councils , and the voluntary sector , of much evidence of recognition of improved collaboration between agencies in delivery of community care in Shropshire . |
10 | But I found out the way to braid leather myself . |
11 | ‘ What was in that bottle I found in the bathroom ? ’ |
12 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
13 | But I found in the city centre , that er I did enjoy working there , but it it can be a bit of a cold and unfriendly place because it 's so such a rapid pace of life . |
14 | Item 1 is an enamelled badge that I found in the garden of an old house . |
15 | ‘ But before I go I 'll have a look at the one I found in the asylum and the one Theodora got from Paul 's church . ’ |
16 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
17 | That accounts for the pinkish colour I found in the incisors of both remains . ’ |
18 | This is a dog I found in the road . |
19 | I found in the bottom can I talk to you while you 're doing that or ? |
20 | I found in the bottom of the freezer some pork that I did n't know we had . |
21 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
22 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
23 | I find at the moment there is very little I actually want to watch , that I 'm actually disillusioned , I 'm getting very little pleasure ! |
24 | I find on the evidence that the dock company would never have undertaken the venture on the basis of 12 hours per day operation . |
25 | I find on the balance of probabilities that if she did not achieve the necessary results for entry to college in the Summer of nineteen eighty seven , she would have achieved such grades by using the year Summer nineteen eighty seven to Summer nineteen eighty eight to re-site whatever was necessary . |
26 | ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said . |
27 | Ignoring all the preliminary pages ( 'prelims ' ) and reaching the ‘ First Booke of Moses called GENESIS ’ , I find in the bottom right-hand margin the capital letter A. The next leaf is number A2 . |
28 | I find In the Bleak Midwinter a dirge if you 're not very careful . |
29 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
30 | Or what you found about the conversation , but your completion is mainly about the insights of doing this erm , transcription . |