Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Upstairs in the bedroom he found empty whisky bottles littering the floor . |
| 3 | From Berwickshire and Bathgate he found rare specimens of at least four fossil land amphibians including the earliest known ancestor of frogs and salamanders ; millipedes and the earliest known harvestman spider . |
| 4 | ‘ In the mid-1950s I found public service very restrictive . |
| 5 | But on the second landing I found small groups of them with machine-guns lazily overlooking the booking hall . |
| 6 | She did n't know whether or not he was sniffing but when I searched his room I found empty aerosols . |
| 7 | Using a small amount of 32 P in an Eppendorf tube we found beta-count rates of 253.010±496 and 83.4±2.6 ( n= 5 , p<0.001 ) without and with the Eppendorf protector , a more than 3000-fold reduction . |
| 8 | In other places we find Whig crowds retaliating to a Tory initiative . |
| 9 | In 110 we find straightforward confession : Yet in the same sentence we find specious self-excuses : ‘ but , by all above ’ , — this unusual oath , calling the heavens to witness , is an anticipatory give-away — Well , the disbelieving reader will say , to claim that you betrayed your partner merely to test your love for him , which has supposedly been increased by the experiment — this is to add insult to injury . |
| 10 | In one particular case we find progressive assimilation of manner , when a word-initial follows a plosive or nasal at the end of a preceding word : it is very common to find that the C i becomes identical in manner to the C f but with dental place of articulation . |
| 11 | The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway . |
| 12 | Each day she found new shoots coming out of the ground . |
| 13 | By 11 October we find local party authorities demanding from peasants the delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye for maintaining ten children on the Volga . |
| 14 | In the oldest civilizations we find definite correlations between social and natural events . |
| 15 | In workplace after workplace we find exploited workers , frightened workers , vulnerable workers , but little chance of recognition no hope of check-off and no one brave enough to come forward as a steward . |
| 16 | In a medical centre they found dreadful cases of malnutrition , scabies and diarrhoea . |
| 17 | Here Darwin 's questions about the creation of species recurred , for in these islands he found fresh variety . |
| 18 | And investigating Neil 's stores I found baked beans , sardines , a couple of small tins of ham , and some crispbread . |
| 19 | With oligarchy went federalism ( though the connection was not a necessary one , since in the fourth-century league we find democratic institutions ) . |
| 20 | Now when we open the scriptures we find clear commands , that th that there are , when we come to Jesus and accept him as our saviour then we are to obey him and we are to be baptized ! |
| 21 | At last he sent for a chaprassi and sent him with me to look for something , but on the way I found nice Mr Dickensen , an American from the University in Rangoon . |
| 22 | And three times since breakfast she found unauthorized people prowling around — one of them in the labor room , no less ! |
| 23 | Today within the margins of acceptability we find professional boxing . |
| 24 | In a preliminary study of 16 frozen sera from patients with Crohn 's disease we found low levels of anti-α antigen antibodies , anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies , and anti-lactoferrin antibodies in some sera . |
| 25 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |