Example sentences of "find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men and women discharged from hospital with nowhere to live , or released from prison back into the community , are having to sleep rough or doss down wherever they can find a willing friend . |
| 2 | The potential reader of a monograph on a minor artist may not find a book easily , but there are plenty of publications on Leonardo , Rembrandt or Picasso . |
| 3 | Instead of a handpump on the bar you will find a tall fount with a two-way lever . |
| 4 | Mr Kidd said he already had anecdotal evidence of US conventions pulling out of the UK : ‘ One conference of surgeons and one group of insurance sales staff , who planned to come to London for two weeks , could not find a hotel they were happy with . ’ |
| 5 | Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema . |
| 6 | We 'll find a hotel where you can go for the night and then tomorrow you can come back here and talk to Kathleen . |
| 7 | The Occupational Therapist is there to try and help you find a solution to your problem . |
| 8 | When Allan grinned knowingly at it , he said , ‘ Oh aye — this house needs a woman. , ‘ Maybe we will find a willing girl at the wedding , ’ Allan suggested . |
| 9 | At first they assumed that he could find a place among the steep woods behind Camserney and be supplied by their good friends Donald and Aileen Gillies at the mill . |
| 10 | The ‘ Quiet Revolution ’ which was beginning to take place in Canada was now seizing Leonard himself ; he would be a poet-writer , and be would find a place for his music alongside it . |
| 11 | ‘ You know how it is , ’ he would say to their hosts , on the pretext of apologising for arriving late , ‘ She could n't find a thing to wear . |
| 12 | I 'll find a place in the phone book and book a table . ’ |
| 13 | In fact we did find a clear difference between the three- and the four-year-olds : the younger ones typically pointed to the box with the chocolate and the older children to the empty box . |
| 14 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 15 | Olive ash , for instance , makes a good ploughed field , as does yew , especially if you can find a piece with a nice ‘ crook ’ grain ; zebrano is useful for both water and sky ; walnut often yields a rock formation ; some of the ‘ burr ’ types ( eg. walnut , ash and elm ) make excellent tree foliage , if the scale is right . |
| 16 | In selected independent stores you will find a range of replacement doors and drawer replacement doors and drawer fronts in some 40 sizes . |
| 17 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |
| 18 | If the first stage functions then the final second stage output is likely to be hard against the positive or negative amplifier limits , but very careful manipulation of the core orientation will find a position in which tiny movements will flick the output between limits . |
| 19 | However , at Canto 106/753–54 ( there is a brief allusion at 104/745 to the mosaics at Monreale ) , we do at last find a Sicilian allusion in the context of writing that we can recognize as distinguished : |
| 20 | And how the devil a poet writing English manages to make or find a language for poems is a mystery . |
| 21 | That is the sort of talk which must find a response in a country in which acute labour shortage coexists with unconscionably high unemployment . |
| 22 | Faced with the possibility of their contributions to the AFBD doubling to £8m a year , members may find a merger less undignified after all . |
| 23 | ‘ We suggested to the ministry a long time ago that they should find a flock with salmonella and test the eggs for salmonella . |
| 24 | Supposing that we did turn away from the cheap arguments , where could we find a better way ? |
| 25 | Those who get housing benefit , but not income support , will find a single person 's rent rebate goes up £1.63 a week . |
| 26 | Alternatively you will also find a section on independent hostels , bunkhouses and camping barns in The Rambler 's Yearbook 1991 , available from bookshops priced £3.50 . |
| 27 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 28 | He wondered where he could find a chance of quieter work . |
| 29 | He had told a friend not long before , ‘ If you walked from Humber to Severn and dodged Derby , you would not find a bishop who can read or write ’ . |
| 30 | He needs continually to be at work dealing with the shifting population of a modern age , so that people who move house to a new estate shall still find a priest and a sacrament for their souls . |