Example sentences of "[vb past] find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 2 | Lodwick 's unpublished manuscripts , including an innovatory Dutch shorthand , are listed in his Works ( 1972 ) , all of which display originality and intelligence , but failed to find practical implementation by his successors . |
| 3 | As it turned out , we only once failed to find wild cocoa in all the areas we visited throughout the region . |
| 4 | Compromise proposals to leave the government ministries in Bonn but move the Bundestag to Berlin failed to find sufficient support . |
| 5 | This ambitious programme was completed by 1797 , but with certain qualifications : the maps of Stirlingshire and of Perthshire were never embarked upon , for Ainslie failed to find sufficient subscribers . |
| 6 | ‘ We drilled two wells whilst I was in Brazil but failed to find commercial hydrocarbons and the office was closed when the work programme was completed , ’ he explained . |
| 7 | Like other state-sector workers , the Government promised to find new jobs for those they laid off , but in reality most have been left to their fate without support . |
| 8 | Sitting in a heavily carved chair to the right of it , George Briant took a sardonic pleasure in the manifest discomfort of the men and women in front of him who moved uneasily in their damp coats and tried to find dry patches on their laps on which to rest their notebooks . |
| 9 | Tried to find famous lake of Chécrout to take ‘ classic ’ photo of Mont Blanc reflected in its waters . |
| 10 | Research workers tried to find carcinogenic materials in kitchens , but further analysis of the data showed that people paid to work in kitchens have less cancer than housewives in spite of spending twice as much time in them . |
| 11 | ‘ We tried to find visiting times which were suitable for the teachers concerned as well as the Subject Assessor , but it was n't always possible ’ . |
| 12 | Dot tried to find beautiful pictures like Mrs Hollidaye did , of meadow flowers , and laughing children , cathedrals and fairy coaches . |
| 13 | Sunderland , playing their fourth match in seven days , made four changes as caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby tried to find fresh legs and a reserve of stamina from his injury-hit first team squad . |
| 14 | In the course of their literature search , on 16 April Palmer found a 1978 paper by the three Soviets — B. Mamyrin , L. Khabarin and V. Yudenich — in which they reported finding excessive amounts of helium-3 in various metals . |
| 15 | She 'd found Psychological Correspondences among her brother-in-law 's books . |
| 16 | On the contrary , she felt happy that he 'd found true love at last . |
| 17 | Marcus Adam , Tony Jarrett , Jason John and Darren Braithwaite overslept and arrived to find golden wonder Christie fuming in the dressing-room . |
| 18 | One day Bernard arrived to find crisp wrappers littering the floor and the assistants sitting around smoking . |
| 19 | When school reopened in September 1939 , we returned to find sandbagged corridors , sticky tape on windows to stop flying glass , and regular safety drills . |
| 20 | Once the industrial and social changes which were transforming the West during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries began to find military expression , of course , the limits of Russia 's resources would be fully exposed . |
| 21 | Still , I needed to find paid work . |
| 22 | I started to find great relaxation in playing with mathematical problems and puzzles . |
| 23 | Convinced that it was genuine , they decided to find local hosts . |
| 24 | And , being true explorationists , they managed to find small patches of snow , ideal for snowballs , on the north facing crevices of the mountain top — even in Arabia . |
| 25 | In Christie 's sale of Impressionist and Modern Paintings , he managed to find genuine buyers for thirty-one lots and raised £17.16 million ( $25.74 million ) , with a further twenty lots failing to sell , although sales of two of those lots , Monet 's riverscape of Vetheuil ( lot 8 , est. £1.5–2 million ) , and Cezanne 's sketch of two companions departing for a painting expedition ( lot 10 , est. £250,000–350,000 ) were subsequently negotiated at £1million ( $1.5 million ) and £175,000 ( $262,500 ) respectively . |
| 26 | Environmental archaeology provides evidence to demonstrate that the human environment has changed many times in the past , each change heralding periods of technological , economic and social change as human societies struggled to find new ways to gain a living from the world around them . |
| 27 | And he disappeared to find other people to tell . |
| 28 | Mass production meant finding new methods of selling , and manufacturers like Ford encouraged high pressure salesmanship . |
| 29 | Endill kept finding empty bottles around the house . |
| 30 | In keeping with their hypothesis , Anderson and Barrios ( 1961 ) did find strong primacy effects . |