Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] find [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Their car came , and they climbed on , just managing to find a place on top at the front among the smokers . |
| 2 | But others looked as though they were desperately trying to find a way out , gazing to the ceiling deep in thought . |
| 3 | I 'm marrying my Italian born fiancé in London and I 'm desperately trying to find a venue for the reception which can serve our guests an authentic Italian meal . |
| 4 | ‘ Your father is a parson , and your mother will want you to marry a lady , ’ said poor Tess , desperately trying to find an excuse . |
| 5 | She closed her eyes , desperately trying to find the anger which had protected her from him so far , but found only an overwhelming longing to simply lose herself in his arms . |
| 6 | Just trying to find a place that 's a bit more comfortable for you . |
| 7 | Strawberry shades , just trying to find the tee shirt Benetton and lady . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've experience of two kinds of Darkfall , ’ continued Gilbert , still looking to find a way around Cardiff , the words still spilling out of him . |
| 9 | I 'm still trying to find the conclusion , are you leaving or are n't you ? |
| 10 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 11 | Certainly they are forever trying to find a chink between their world and this . |
| 12 | He is also trying to find a manufacturer for a porcelain razor he designed for an exhibition in New York . |
| 13 | His cynicism is understandable — the black humoured script depicts US soldiers as sadists and racists , hopelessly trying to find a rationale for a war that their country can not justify . |
| 14 | He starts to read one , clearly hoping to find the answer in the small print . |
| 15 | International aid agencies , such as UNICEF , the UN children 's fund and the World Bank , are now striving to find a design for a handpump that is cheap and easy to maintain . |
| 16 | In this chapter it is appropriate to return to the original problem of specifying the initial data and then attempting to find the solution that determines the subsequent development . |
| 17 | ‘ Ibrahim went there expecting to find the body , did n't he ? |
| 18 | But , frankly , the policy of inventing interesting things and then trying to find a market for them was not generally very successful , ’ says Foster . |
| 19 | I 'm never going to find the spirit of true Englishness there . |
| 20 | And er we find that those of us who are working with homeless people are increasingly simply trying to find some kind of shelter for a few nights rather than actually trying to find a home for people . |