Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it only remained to find a suitable present . |
| 2 | ‘ Most textile plants are built near a big sewerage plant , not in the middle of the countryside like ours , ’ explained Dai Jones , whose responsibility it soon became to find a means of solving the problem . |
| 3 | ‘ I just came to find a book … ’ |
| 4 | She always expected to find a rival ; but there was no rival , unless you count Emma Bovary . |
| 5 | ‘ As long as Drexel was there , ’ says Mr Sind , ‘ they always managed to find a way to struggle from debt-payment date to debt-payment date . ’ |
| 6 | But he still had to find a wife . |
| 7 | I always wanted to find a woman who liked to do what I liked to do — but I could never find one who wanted to drink and chase women . |
| 8 | We also managed to find a couple of bottles of Chilean Chardonnay ( trust me , it 's great ) in a very posh wine merchant 's where the staff were half way to calling the cops as we walked in . |
| 9 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 10 | ‘ At first he did n't believe us but when he realised we really had found a baby and came back with us to have a look . ’ |
| 11 | If they really wanted to find a motive for the murder , they should grill Mrs Sweet . |
| 12 | For the next four years her relatives reportedly tried to find a country that would receive her body for burial , but were turned away until they reached Peru . |
| 13 | Ann and I even managed to find a boat and ventured out fishing on Dunalister Reservoir , a shallow , flooded loch between Rannoch and Tummel , formed when the waters of Rannoch were impounded as part of the Pitlochry Hydro Electric Scheme . |
| 14 | Sharpe blew the Prince 's whore a kiss , then rode to find a crossroads . |
| 15 | After several days travelling eastwards , I arrived in Australia , and from there managed to find a ship returning to Europe . |
| 16 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 17 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |