Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later , installed in the office , a small room looking out on to the quarantine quarters , Sophie tried to find a topic of conversation that would keep things on a professional basis . |
| 2 | Finally , Ghatak tried to find a way between popular melodrama and the avant-garde . |
| 3 | Wark struggled to find a club when released by Boro last summer , before he rejoined Ipswich on a weekly contract . |
| 4 | But Paddington did find a note on the door step asking for two extra pints and things . |
| 5 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 6 | That ‘ Mr Lavoisier had found a method of making inflammable air ( hydrogen ) for a halfpenny per cubic foot ’ , a fifth of the usual price , attracted Priestley 's attention . |
| 7 | Within a month , Mr K had found a buyer for the lease . |
| 8 | Tina had found a home with her parent , her father having died when she was fifteen , on every occasion when other roofs had failed her . |
| 9 | At last Katherine had found a subject . |
| 10 | Richmann had found a couple of his men in one of the city 's bars , and dragged them out to take up position around a junction in the northern poor quarter . |
| 11 | Unable to pump in compressed air to equalise the water pressure — the air pressure required would have exceeded legal limits — Fairclough and Thames had to find a machine that could operate under such conditions . |
| 12 | Soon Endill had found a room that he thought would do for his workshop . |
| 13 | This presented a sizeable engineering problem : although INOC managed to find a solution , it was really little more than a stopgap and the long-term answer proved to be the negotiation of an arrangement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 14 | Anna had found a place in all their hearts , but nowhere so strongly as in the heart of this young boy . |
| 15 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 16 | Heseltine had to find a subsidy to stop the coal revolt by Tory backbenchers a short-term subsidy to the coal industry . |
| 17 | Lydia went to find a bottle of some Czechoslovakian wine she said she had discovered . |
| 18 | Parking in Bristol was difficult , as usual , but Lowell managed to find a slot in a multi-storey car park near Broadmead , the city 's main shopping centre . |
| 19 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 20 | In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 21 | Baxter had to find a way to stop the piglets getting out to bully their mother and steal milk from others with younger litters . |
| 22 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |
| 23 | Despite talks with party leaders yesterday , Mr Sartzetakis failed to find a way out of the impasse created by the resignation on Saturday of a conservative-communist coalition government which was formed in July . |
| 24 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 25 | Davy had found a way to burn a candle in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 26 | Within moments , Alison had found a pretext to excuse herself . |
| 27 | Where Elizabeth failed to find a way of reinventing the monarchy , Charles , a child of the television age , succeeded . |
| 28 | From somewhere , Fabia managed to find a voice of her own . |
| 29 | Anne thought Nina had found a hiding place and was lying low . |
| 30 | It was some months later that Harold and Richard realised that Phil Prior had found a husband elsewhere . |