Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macdonald tried unsuccessfully to find a magistrate to receive his oath at the last minute , then sent his papers to Edinburgh , where Secretary of State and Master of Stair Sir John Dalrymple suppressed them . |
| 2 | The Allied politicians tried hard to find a solution , to resolve the conflicting demands of their own economies and ambitions along with those of the Poles and Germans . |
| 3 | erm I found recently found a Bestway pattern book and this is one of the pa the war time patterns they produced which is sort of shell shaped squares for patchwork and it really looks very effective . |
| 4 | You 'd better find a plaster for that thumb or it might start bleeding again . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd better find a builder , then , and ask him to take a look . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'd best find a master-mason . |
| 7 | At the beginning of our second week in Corfu , I woke up to find a lump beneath my left arm the size of a pigeon 's egg and two smaller ones running into my breast . |
| 8 | ‘ I came here to find a man to kill my wife . |
| 9 | He 'd never found a wire he could n't climb . |
| 10 | Having delivered this Parthian shot , she stalked off to find a taxi home . |
| 11 | Then he raced away to find a doctor . |
| 12 | His solicitor , Mike Allan , told Sheriff Alexander Jessop that Say had been completely devastated when he arrived home to find a note from his wife , telling him their marriage was over . |
| 13 | When she arrived home to find a crowd of newsmen on her doorstep , she stepped back into her blue Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 14 | Startled , she glanced back to find a man clad in the scarlet overalls and white crash helmet of a driver standing a few yards away . |
| 15 | The bell rang and Amiss went in to find a pair of newcomers in search of tea and toast . |
| 16 | He bought a gold Piaget with a diamond-set face , had it gift-wrapped and went out to find a cab and go to meet Irina . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the diocese not only supplied an extra man but very quickly went about finding a house on the Trendlewood estate for the Carter family to move into ( at a cost of £125,000 ) — so very generous and rapid support from the diocese was a key factor . |
| 18 | Bram Stoker may have been a genial enough fellow externally , but he knew how to find a place which would match the chill in the soul of his novel . |
| 19 | We did not find a correlation between disturbed gastric emptying , impaired gall bladder contraction , and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ; also , there was no correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or longstanding history of diabetes . |
| 20 | The Melbourne Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group did not find a difference in urinary albumin excretion between nifedipine and perindopril in a one year randomised study including 53 patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes with or without hypertension . |
| 21 | Johnson 's account discusses the hostelry 's unsavouriness by contrast with the generally strong composure of the town , which he found ‘ well built , airy and clean ’ , but at the inn ‘ did not find a reception such as we thought proportionate to the commercial opulence of the place ’ . |
| 22 | I 'd be surprised at the end of the day if er we did n't find a solution that would enable John Macgregor to go forward . |
| 23 | Well , sir , I thought I had only found a cook , but it was a crew I had discovered ! |
| 24 | Marie 's eyes shone with the light of inspiration , as if she had suddenly found a purpose in life . |
| 25 | Of course Marguerite would not be here unless she had already found a companion ; Alain would not have allowed it . |
| 26 | Long before then , however , the rose had already found a place in the heart of man . |
| 27 | He had not found a replacement for Lady Cross , he had just had to pay more than £40,000 in back rent and new lease arrangements and the business was not doing well . |
| 28 | Endill expected to bump into him again soon , but after several weeks had seen nothing of him and concluded he had finally found a way out . |
| 29 | The Teessiders seemed to sense that the Rokermen were starting to wilt and in the 62nd minute it looked as though Middlesbrough had finally found a way through . |
| 30 | Bryony had finally found a job she liked , after various bizarre false starts , and months on social security . |