Example sentences of "[pers pn] had find a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 2 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 3 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 4 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 5 | Then I had to find a cab and get back here . |
| 6 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 7 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 8 | I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it . |
| 9 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 10 | I dropped to the floor , hopeful I had found a gap in the defences , and stopped dead . |
| 11 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps I wanted to convince her that I had found a replacement for her and she was wasting her time in trying to fan burned-out ashes to life . ’ |
| 13 | It would have been a consolation if I had found a mother in Mme Guérigny . |
| 14 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |
| 15 | If she had found a man , life would have turned out differently for her , he knew . |
| 16 | Now it seemed she had found a man she could love , but he was someone else 's husband and her brother was bent on vengeance . |
| 17 | She had found a man who meant more to her than anything in the world and he was of another world , as he had told her . |
| 18 | She had found a gap in the blackout material and had fixed her eye to it . |
| 19 | She had found a cause , and the cause was n't yet debased by her own incapacity to believe . |
| 20 | But she had found a deal of happiness in her family . |
| 21 | When Katherine had opened the parcel , she had found a copy of Henry James 's Daisy Miller , but she had been too excited to read . |
| 22 | The elegantly shabby room in which she had found a haven was an oasis in the East End 's desert , which could be glimpsed through the small bow window . |
| 23 | Then , as if she had found a flaw in his argument , she pinged her own bell and announced : ‘ But you love Cork . |
| 24 | Hoped to God she had found a leaf somewhere . |
| 25 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 26 | She had to find a way to escape him . |
| 27 | She had to find a phone box ! |
| 28 | She had to find a balance between the role of leader , inspirer , companion , friend . |
| 29 | It refused to accept the bent card , and she had to find a barrier run by a human being . |
| 30 | Because we had to find a nurse to ask |