Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] find [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I read every book I could find about the rise and fall of the Dervish Empire . |
| 2 | The material that I used was a lovely heavy cream bridal fabric , chosen because it was the closest equivalent I could find to the bride 's dress — surprisingly enough , she would n't let me chop a hole in the real thing ! |
| 3 | Erm , on , I put in because it was the worst example I could find of the abuse of psychoanalysis for destroying somebody 's personality , personality assassination by , by er a psychoanalysis . |
| 4 | ‘ … with honour , ’ I added ( they were not , I realized , quite the right words but they were the nearest I could find in the urgency of the moment ) . |
| 5 | Whenever I could , I went out , armed with my expensive binoculars , to see what I could find in the fields or to observe the coastal birds — puffins , with the splendid red , yellow and blue bills which they shed when the mating season is over ; cormorants nesting in colonies on ledges in the cliffs ; screeching gannets and all the members of the gull family . |
| 6 | She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . |
| 7 | After gobbling up whatever I could find in the house , I crept into bed and pulled the blankets over my head in a vain attempt to stifle the mocking voices and shut out the ugly visions . |
| 8 | While still in London I would wake in the night to find the bed devoid of Nigel , whom I would find in the kitchen , drinking tea and pacing the floor . |
| 9 | The only flaw I can find with the Alpamayo is that the hipbelt wo n't fit small waists ( those much below 80cm ) . |
| 10 | The main fault I can find with the vehicle is the cab noise at speeds over 40 mph , ( it will only do 60mph ) I know the Land Rover was never meant for motorways but we plan on taking it on our holiday , is it normal for gearboxes to sound like they are going to fly out of the window or do I have a fault ? |
| 11 | Say you 're the nearest I can find in the book , Filton I should try . |
| 12 | So maybe it 's difficult to separate out the consequences of abuse per se from the consequences of erm lousy emotional environment , from the consequences of neglect and deprivation , from the consequences of a whole range of non-sexual abuses which you may find in the kinds of environment where child sex abuse is more likely . |
| 13 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 14 | You do n't need to go actually to the end with your numbers but you can take your line right along there cos you might find at the last minute there 's an extra one you want to put on . |
| 15 | The girl wearing the pigtails , Amanda Thripp , stood quite still , watching the advancing giant , and the expression on her face was one that you might find on the face of a person who is trapped in a small field with an enraged bull which is charging flat-out towards her . |
| 16 | A FEW OF THE MANY BEAUTIFUL BEDROOMS YOU 'LL FIND BETWEEN THE COVERS OF OUR NEW BROCHURE |
| 17 | Cherries and strawberries are scents that you 'll find on the bouquet and in the taste . |
| 18 | Registration of title is no guarantee of boundaries , showing general boundaries only , although the clarity and accuracy of the filed plan ( based as it is on the Ordnance Survey ) is commonly superior to most of the plans you 'll find on the unregistered title . |
| 19 | And if you 're coming in towards Oxford City Centre on the A40 , coming in towards the Headington roundabout , you 'll find at the moment that it 's er about a mile and a half to two miles of very slow moving traffic approaching the roundabout itself . |
| 20 | Fill in the special entry form you 'll find in the card and if your entry arrives by next Sunday you can play the pools for 10 weeks for a tenner with an extra week FREE . |
| 21 | Quite sure that you 'll find in the end that I 'm right and it was set up by murdering bog-trotters . |
| 22 | Erm it 's can I draw attention please to a a erm report which you 'll find in the Michael erm submissions in appendix two . |
| 23 | for the er studying for thermographic school you 'll find in the old people 's , in the old people 's |
| 24 | Check out a parchment that you 'll find near the cavern entrance — this contains the aim of your quest , which changes every time you play . |
| 25 | Lili had bought it because it was the only work in English she could find at the bookstall . |
| 26 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 27 | It 's also double-bound in white plastic , which should tell you that Fender have simplified production by using the exact same bodies you 'd find on the ‘ 62 rosewood-neck reissues . |
| 28 | Do n't be nervous , it 's a method of totally relaxing your mind and body — not something you 'd find on the Stock Exchange . |
| 29 | ‘ The performers are not particularly attractive — they 're more like everyday people you 'd find on the street , ’ acknowledges one aficionado , explaining why he likes the tapes . |
| 30 | Not one of them 's a hard-bitten tom , the kind you 'd find on the streets . |