Example sentences of "[vb past] find a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 2 | It has become the means for distinguishing between leases and licences , the latter being the means by which lawyers sought to find a way around statutory controls regarding the levels of rent and security for the tenant . |
| 3 | This was the situation as the Commonwealth leaders sought to find a formula . |
| 4 | The other notable picture , Rembrandt 's early and small Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel , estimated at ‘ over £5 million ’ failed to find a buyer after bidding stopped at £6 million . |
| 5 | A collection of early aviation postcards failed to find a buyer , but as compensation early space flight memorabilia such as the Union Flag carried by Al Warden and taken with him on Apollo 15 around the moon sold for an impressive £1,600 . |
| 6 | That was the shock claim from Blades manager Dave Bassett last night after he failed to find a buyer for the 32-year old-winger . |
| 7 | The superb four-storey Georgian town house premises failed to find a buyer despite its low estimate ( £250,000–£350,000 ) just sufficient to buy a reasonable flat in London . |
| 8 | On 19 May this year Edmund Peel , Madrid , offered a major portrait of the court embroiderer Juan López de Robredo with an estimate of Pta200,000 million ( £1.11 million ; $1.93 million ) , but it failed to find a buyer . |
| 9 | Ironically medical evidence brought out in court failed to find a link between the drugs sold by Georgia Griffiths and those found in the body of Henry Skelton |
| 10 | Despite talks with party leaders yesterday , Mr Sartzetakis failed to find a way out of the impasse created by the resignation on Saturday of a conservative-communist coalition government which was formed in July . |
| 11 | Where Elizabeth failed to find a way of reinventing the monarchy , Charles , a child of the television age , succeeded . |
| 12 | His proposal failed to find a seconder , and the following week another council member , Dr. Meldrum , comprehensively refuted the argument in a letter to the editor of the Bedfordshire Times . |
| 13 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
| 14 | It was excessively breadth-first and failed to find a solution in all ten trials . |
| 15 | She failed to find a donor in time to save Anthony , who died , aged just seven , but since then the register has helped to save hundreds of lives and continues to provide a vital service . |
| 16 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 17 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 18 | The second was that this was the very difficult period when , as Dean Acheson said , Britain ‘ had lost an Empire and failed to find a role ’ . |
| 19 | The seller sold one car for £350 but failed to find a purchaser for the other . |
| 20 | La Meije loomed above , but I failed to find a party who were doing the Grand Pic and returning . |
| 21 | He expected to find a drain . |
| 22 | She always expected to find a rival ; but there was no rival , unless you count Emma Bovary . |
| 23 | Sharpe blew the Prince 's whore a kiss , then rode to find a crossroads . |
| 24 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 25 | In the meantime I tried to find a home for Poppy to go to when ( or if ) we eventually caught her . |
| 26 | He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience . |
| 27 | Early one morning , we tried to find a clerk in a department that sprawls across a full floor . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Here a young couple got on and tried to find a couple of seats which were situated together preferably away from everyone else . |
| 30 | Finally , Ghatak tried to find a way between popular melodrama and the avant-garde . |