Example sentences of "[pron] find [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had . |
2 | Starting with William Morris in the 1870s , a group of them found the medieval setting , craft traditions and stunning landsacapes they wanted in which to work . |
3 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
4 | It enables them to find a suitable assistant and agree with them the hours , times and tasks required . |
5 | Some are combatants and others work in agriculture , They describe their music as giving culture back to the people , allowing them to find a new identity and respect for their collective cultural history . |
6 | If Ah remember rightly , he says the Gómez family already had Irish connections , so it was fairly simple fur them to find an impoverished landowner with a beautiful daughter goin' spare . |
7 | I found no great welcome ; people seemed quite oblivious of my arrival , and no doubt it was unconscious arrogance on my part to expect it to be otherwise . |
8 | So I walked across the moor , until I found a dry place to sleep , in the shelter of a small hill . |
9 | The Baby parade has continued ever since , encompassing such ditties as ‘ I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store ’ , ‘ You Better Keep Babying Baby ( Or Your Baby 's Gon na Bye-Bye You ) ’ , and ‘ Baby Let Your Drawers Hang Down ’ , the latter being performed at Babe Connors ' Club in St Louis , where the girls did bumps and grinds on a mirror floor . |
10 | 1 While I was digging in the sand I found a strange gimble. 2 Carl and Jayne are both beamish , but Mike is the beamishest person I known . |
11 | Feeling in one of the pockets I found a black eye patch for added colour and realised that my crew were endorsing the senior officer 's joke about piracy in the Channel . |
12 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
13 | I had the opportunity to visit the north-west on Monday , where I found a good deal of buoyancy and confidence in the future of the north-west and of the country as a whole . |
14 | ‘ I found a good place on the bus , on the top deck , right at the front , where you can feel the warmth coming up through a grating ’ ( here and there a head nodded understandingly ) ‘ and see the view . |
15 | Then I lifted the foot and as I explored further I found a tender area in the superficial flexor . |
16 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
17 | This I found a great help . |
18 | ‘ I think he must have taken one because two days later I found a five pound note in the box . |
19 | In the book I found a Spanish proverb that runs , No se ganó Zamora en una hora — ‘ Zamora is n't reached in an hour ’ , which is the equivalent of our ‘ Rome was n't built in a day ’ . |
20 | I found a better man than Dudley , James . |
21 | Bardeen , Carter , and I found a similar law relating to the change in mass of a black hole to a change in the area of the event horizon . |
22 | At Bishop McGregor School I found a similar picture with men outnumbering women as shown in Table 6.3 . |
23 | In Petts Wood I found a little space like that to park in . |
24 | That feeling of uncertainty did not last long , I found a new pathway and the bewilderment soon went . |
25 | I remember the time I found a wounded falcon … ’ |
26 | I think I could survive on my own in New York if I had a credit card and I found a nice hotel like Kevin . |
27 | then I found a bloody job ! |
28 | I found a felt-tip pen in the desk drawer and addressed the envelope to ‘ Mr F. MacLean ’ care of a pub I knew in Southwark where they knew me by that name . |
29 | On arrival I found a young man from the GLC equipped with a magic lantern , slides , wall plans and all other relevant data . |
30 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |