Example sentences of "[pron] would find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cleaned myself up and checked out my patch , hoping I 'd find that tabby trespassing . |
| 2 | I detuned my Whites , pinpointed the coin and recovered an American quarter from the sand — one of only eight American coins I would find that evening . |
| 3 | Tomorrow I would find chemical solutions to these new problems . |
| 4 | This particular tool I would find little use for . |
| 5 | In short , there may be some special reason for buying this set ( memories of Zampieri 's Minnie at Covent Garden in 1985 and later , perhaps , or an interest in hearing Domingo live ) , but otherwise I would find any other of the available versions preferable . |
| 6 | Later , when she watched the scene during the shooting , she 'd find more girls in the pile of smashed-up cars : one putting on lipstick high in a lorry 's cab , another lying on the bonnet like a mascot , face to the car 's prow , giving a feline look as she too read aloud , from a French philosopher who later in a fit of madness pushed his wife under in the bath , and held her there till there were no more bubbles . |
| 7 | ‘ He keeps hisself to hisself , ’ she was told several times , though Davyd , who always had superior knowledge , added ‘ cut him in half and you 'd find pure gold , all through . ’ |
| 8 | Diana had known she was marrying into a close family , but she was unprepared for how claustrophobic it would be , or how dull she would find long spells in their company , with their passion for dogs and horses . |
| 9 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |
| 10 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |
| 11 | At two o'clock in the morning , you would find two men with a hose back of Rose Street , hosing round a big pile of fish entrails as high as this — the retail fish market was just there . |
| 12 | If the current ( and proposed ) restrictions were eased , and cycles were carried on a ‘ first come , first served ’ basis , you would find many customers willing to accept this . |
| 13 | If the current ( and proposed ) restrictions were eased , and cycles were carried on a ‘ first come , first served ’ basis , you would find many customers willing to accept this . |
| 14 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 15 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 16 | We believe that we would , we would find considerable difficulty too , in closing one plus in a single financial year , er , for all sorts of reasons which we can explain to you . |
| 17 | And they would find this fact indicated by peculiarities in the use of the word ‘ being ’ or ‘ existence ’ which the logical positivist critique does n't begin to take account of . |
| 18 | An incurable optimist , she was sure that they would find some way of making their living , but she knew that her sister was afraid they would n't — and in that case , of course , they would have to let the cottage , and separate after all . |
| 19 | Taj Group sales and marketing vice-president Pankaj Balija said if hotel companies came to India they would find stiff competition . |
| 20 | She knew perfectly well that if she gave him any warning he 'd find some excuse to refuse to see her , so , having dumped her own things in her flat , she went straight round to his , hoping to catch him before he went out . |
| 21 | And she knew she was expendable ; one word out of place and he would find another Sunday partner . |
| 22 | ‘ When I argued , he said if I lost my licence he would find another job for me in the organisation . ’ |
| 23 | In Paris , if he strolled into the Dôme or the Rotonde , he would find interesting types , émigrés , intellectuals , beauties or bohemians , or Zbo could hire models for him . |
| 24 | Zbo had been impressed , when he convalesced in the south in 1916 , by the rich residents there and he believed , somewhat naïvely , that he would find important clients to buy his paintings . |
| 25 | He would find this man , help this man . |
| 26 | If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants . |
| 27 | It would find few backers among politicians worried about jobs and living standards rather than market share . |