Example sentences of "[pers pn] find [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it best to suspend the tube containing the eggs as soon as the embryo could be seen inside . |
| 2 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 3 | He watches the boxing and I find something else to do . |
| 4 | I find it best to spread the cream over the minced beef , and then to top that with the avocado ( if used ) and the tomato . |
| 5 | Let me take the dress to Donna while you find something else to put on . ’ |
| 6 | she finds it easier to talk to come out with it . . |
| 7 | Ca n't you find anyone else to play with ? ’ |
| 8 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 9 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 10 | Just for a second longer she hovered uncertainly in the doorway , fighting against the urge to beg him to find someone else to teach him before she spun round and ran from the room . |
| 11 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 12 | Therefore they find it just to overthrow the Northern statelet by whatever degree of force proves necessary . |