Example sentences of "[vb mod] find [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
2 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
3 | He took the girls to the swimming pool after midnight , and then persuaded the victim to come with him to a changing room , on the pretext that the manager of the swimming pool might find them at the pool . |
4 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
5 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
6 | If such a proposal was adopted by the GMC Kay and his committee might find themselves in the dock . |
7 | ‘ You 'll find one on the next landing . ’ |
8 | You 'll find him on the practice pitch . ’ |
9 | ‘ If you wish to meet the dog , ’ she whispered , ‘ you 'll find him on the island . ’ |
10 | ‘ No , but you 'll find him in the bar at the nearest race meeting to London . |
11 | When there 's no racing nearby , you 'll find him in the Garrick Club . ’ |
12 | You 'll find him in the Royalbion Hospitality Unit . ’ |
13 | Maggie started to laugh , saying , ; ‘ If you could n't find him among the five hundred there 's less chance you 'll find him among the fifty . ’ |
14 | You 'll find them at the very end of , of chapter twenty eight . |
15 | You 'll find them in the wine sections , priced from £2.49 to Pounds 2.79 for 200ml . |
16 | There are starters , main courses and side dishes and you 'll find them in the freezer cabinet . |
17 | You 'll find everyone from the bank manager to your lover ( or potential lover ) is open to a little gentle persuasion . |
18 | ‘ You 'll find her in the drawing-room , ’ Dot heard Mrs Hollidaye say . |
19 | Well , do n't keep me waiting another time , or you 'll find yourself on the Report for improperly working your beat . |
20 | Hustle the Panda along your average back road and you 'll find none of the woolliness that might be expected from a car of this price range . |
21 | ‘ If you can oblige us with that bit of information you can turn the donkey loose and we 'll find it on the road for the man who reported it lost . |
22 | This is quite a challenging assignment , but you 'll find it worth the effort . |
23 | If you 're not sure about what you should do when , contact your local Agricultural Development Advisory Service ( ADAS ) office : you 'll find it in the phone book under the section devoted to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Foods . |
24 | You could find yourself in the ludicrous situation where you have to take them out of the country for half-an-hour and take them back in again . |
25 | How wonderful , I thought , if today 's humans could find themselves on the shores of England seeing and getting mixed up with Caesar 's army in 54 BC , landing to take over the country ; be in burning Rome as Nero fiddled ; get involved in Europe 's tragic thirty years war , etc. , etc . |
26 | Although this may be obscured by the second phase of London Bridge City , if the Simpson scheme is constructed the directors of Marketplace could find themselves with the unlikely view of a replica of the Piazza San Marco in Venice . |
27 | Another , senior designer from a German competitor ( not BMW ) stated : ‘ I like the crinkled leather on the doors ’ , but could find nothing about the exterior to praise : ‘ It 's design stagnation ; from some angles it looks like a Lincoln . ’ |
28 | I could find nothing in the text to justify such an idea , but my aunt said she knew by ‘ feminine intuition ’ . |
29 | Oh that 's erm ah yes , I should try to use the calculator if I could find it on the machine ! |
30 | Doubted if I could find it in the undergrowth . |