Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] find [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 2 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 3 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 4 | This poem helped me to find a way back into my own poetry . |
| 5 | It seems that a few years ago Mrs Brissett 's daughter 's husband left her and she had trouble finding a job and had no money … and Harriet helped her find a job somewhere . |
| 6 | The children helped him find a better cure , too . |
| 7 | ‘ They got down to forty-five-second intervals , and I asked Gabrielle if she 'd mind not giving birth until the end of the episode , but she told me to find a nurse — fast . |
| 8 | Mortimer advised him to find a linguistics expert who could advise them on the meaning of the word ‘ bollocks ’ . |
| 9 | He dreamt that he was in the coils of a giant worm , and when he woke he found the bedclothes wrapped tightly around him . |
| 10 | I knew your address , and I knew that the King asked you to find the photograph . |
| 11 | The walk was scheduled to depart from Green Park Tube , and when I arrived I found a group of thirty or so walkers already tapping their feet . |
| 12 | When they arrived they found the police already there' ( Labour Research , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 14 | Mr Bourne had a history of anxiety and agitation and a psychiatric report stated he found the world too difficult to cope with . |
| 15 | Myra gave her a gaily wrapped parcel , and Claudia opened it to find a beautiful silk scarf printed with white and pink roses on a jade-green background . |
| 16 | I hurried to the Adjutant and he opened it to find an urgent request for a volunteer to serve in Southern Arabia . |
| 17 | When she returned she found a letter of dismissal waiting for her and a cheque for payment in lieu of notice . |
| 18 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
| 19 | The teenager left him alone to go to a disco but when she and a friend returned they found the child dead . |
| 20 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 21 | When Moore returned he found the room clean and neat . |
| 22 | Could it have been to make up for Cymbeline 's cheating that the Umpire permitted me to find the sacristy so easily ? |
| 23 | He urged anyone finding the drugs to hand them to police . |
| 24 | ( Gubbins suffered from chronic dyspepsia , smoked fifty cigarettes a day , and confessed he found the world intolerable without a glass in his hand . ) |
| 25 | Nevertheless all found an authority in their relationship to God which enabled them to find a means of articulating it . |
| 26 | Mr James Ferman , director of the British Board of Film Classifications , admitted he found the video , an exploration of the borderline between religious ecstasy and sexual passion , an interesting and legitimate subject . |
| 27 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 28 | I had no trouble in interpreting this , nor did I find the sequence strange , despite the fact that there are no overt formal links of the kind discussed in 2 . |
| 29 | I had no trouble in interpreting this , nor did I find the sequence strange , despite the fact that there are no overt formal links of the kind discussed in 2 . |
| 30 | ‘ Where the heck did you find a word like that ? ’ |