Example sentences of "[adv] find a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But baseball is sure eventually to find a way to put its financial house in order . |
| 2 | But unless we eventually found a body , there would also be the possibility of simple flight . |
| 3 | Those few that escape being eaten form pairs and go off together to find a nest site in a crevice in the ground or a crack in a tree . |
| 4 | We 're not looking at that point of view we 're looking at more like working together to find a solution . |
| 5 | Congressional leaders were set to meet the president on January 3rd , perhaps to find a course on which all could agree . |
| 6 | But what about adding a twist to the puzzle : the task is not merely to find a way out , but to find the shortest route to the way out . ’ |
| 7 | If you can make out the lyrics — and it 's difficult enough to find a song in this aural tirade — you 'll be subconsciously ordered to slaughter small children on the bus home . |
| 8 | Several weeks later , John was lucky enough to find a home , but Poppy did n't have to cope alone for long . |
| 9 | If they 're not lucky enough to find a hostel place , they end up in bed and breakfast accommodation , without the support that a hostel provides . |
| 10 | Victorian lockets look beautiful if they contain a tiny flower arrangement instead of a photograph , and if you are lucky enough to find a fob watch that no longer works you can transform it into a stunning and unusual frame for a miniature flower design . |
| 11 | If they were lucky enough to find a skylark 's nest they might not want to spoil the countryside for all of us . |
| 12 | Ruth had been fortunate enough to find a job in Ilkley . |
| 13 | It is not enough to find a woman . |
| 14 | It 's easy enough to find a President , but not everybody can improve the economy . ’ |
| 15 | James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner , only to find a cargo ship and a deck-hand 's job waiting for him . |
| 16 | First Edition TWO MEN who fled after bungling a raid on a shop jumped into a getaway car only to find a policeman at the wheel . |
| 17 | What is Joe Bloggs going to do when he returns to his ancient , battle-scarred Range Rover , only to find a Zoom parked a few millimetres from his rear bumper ? |
| 18 | Swan bought a lunchtime edition of the Standard , only to find a picture of an angry Hyacinth Scragg confronting a half-blinded lady interviewer . |
| 19 | He turned and charged quickly off into the forest to rescue his friend , only to find a German splayed out on the ground and Tommy still running on up the hill . |
| 20 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 21 | The Doctor decides to talk to Bennett in his cabin , but when the man tells him to go away he forces open the door — only to find a tape recorder and an escape hatch door in the floor . |
| 22 | The Land Rover was waiting , but it took a minute or so to find a driver . |
| 23 | Marie 's eyes shone with the light of inspiration , as if she had suddenly found a purpose in life . |
| 24 | Well , sir , I thought I had only found a cook , but it was a crew I had discovered ! |
| 25 | In the fine structure proposed we have only found a tendency towards the B II state ( with ε-ζ values of roughly -30° compared to -90° in B I and +90° in B II ) . |
| 26 | Borland has obviously found a way around the problem of maintaining data integrity , performing operations on the data in those fields without causing logical conflicts within the databases . |
| 27 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 28 | Pupils should be taught how and when to adapt the speed and closeness of their reading for specific purposes , eg finding a fact , getting the gist of a passage or making a summary . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , y-yes , ’ she stammered , her heart suddenly finding a lot of extra energy . |
| 30 | Above : The problem with breeding Piranhas is not only finding a male and a female , but stopping them from eating one another when you do . |