Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] find a [noun] " 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 | La Meije loomed above , but I failed to find a party who were doing the Grand Pic and returning . |
| 3 | In the meantime I tried to find a home for Poppy to go to when ( or if ) we eventually caught her . |
| 4 | I tried to find a method whereby I could seize the effect of motion … how to arrest a movement in a few bold strokes , catching the passing moment and finding new forms … my goal was always to express emotion and experience with large and simple forms and clear colours ’ . |
| 5 | Apart from a price list , so we had a price list , and I thought right so I went to a book shop and I tried to find a book on masks nothing . |
| 6 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 7 | I 'd found a movie to go to , at an off-centre commons . |
| 8 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 9 | ‘ It was then I decided to find a product which I thought was marketable and start marketing it , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I had run away from Sir Tom because I needed to find a bedrock of truth on which to build a life . |
| 11 | I managed to find a pair of school shoes for twenty pounds which is quite cheap compared to some of the other prices . |
| 12 | Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma . |
| 13 | Even better I thought to find a society that automatically lets its existing investors know when a better deal becomes available . |
| 14 | ‘ I went to find a hooker , Mrs Sutherland . ’ |
| 15 | I did find a place that would take us but for Holmes there were too many interesting species of humans and dogs , for him to get involved in being trained . |
| 16 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 17 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 18 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 19 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 20 | Then I had to find a cab and get back here . |
| 21 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 22 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 23 | I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it . |
| 24 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 25 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 26 | I dropped to the floor , hopeful I had found a gap in the defences , and stopped dead . |
| 27 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps I wanted to convince her that I had found a replacement for her and she was wasting her time in trying to fan burned-out ashes to life . ’ |
| 29 | It would have been a consolation if I had found a mother in Mme Guérigny . |
| 30 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |