Example sentences of "[vb mod] find [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the court or the arbitrator should find against the validity of the expulsion , the injured partner should as a matter of common sense be given the opportunity of retiring from the firm on short notice : relations with those party to an attempt to expel him could scarcely be expected to remain harmonious . |
| 2 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 3 | The girl wearing the pigtails , Amanda Thripp , stood quite still , watching the advancing giant , and the expression on her face was one that you might find on the face of a person who is trapped in a small field with an enraged bull which is charging flat-out towards her . |
| 4 | Bracing himself , ready for whatever he might find at the bottom . |
| 5 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 6 | Elaine Moss 's daughter , Alison , fell in love with a little picture-book that one might find among the painting-books and the ‘ join-the-dots ’ books in a newsagents , but not in a ‘ proper ’ bookshop . |
| 7 | A FEW OF THE MANY BEAUTIFUL BEDROOMS YOU 'LL FIND BETWEEN THE COVERS OF OUR NEW BROCHURE |
| 8 | And if you 're coming in towards Oxford City Centre on the A40 , coming in towards the Headington roundabout , you 'll find at the moment that it 's er about a mile and a half to two miles of very slow moving traffic approaching the roundabout itself . |
| 9 | Cherries and strawberries are scents that you 'll find on the bouquet and in the taste . |
| 10 | I do n't know what we 'll find in the mountains , but I know there are answers there . ’ |
| 11 | Fill in the special entry form you 'll find in the card and if your entry arrives by next Sunday you can play the pools for 10 weeks for a tenner with an extra week FREE . |
| 12 | Quite sure that you 'll find in the end that I 'm right and it was set up by murdering bog-trotters . |
| 13 | Erm it 's can I draw attention please to a a erm report which you 'll find in the Michael erm submissions in appendix two . |
| 14 | You know what we 'll find in the morning — and all thanks to you , my girl . ’ |
| 15 | Check out a parchment that you 'll find near the cavern entrance — this contains the aim of your quest , which changes every time you play . |
| 16 | After that I read every book I could find about the rise and fall of the Dervish Empire . |
| 17 | We found the brêche , from which we knew a steep couloir dropped to the Talefre Glacier , and started abseiling from such old slings and pegs as we could find on the sidewalls . |
| 18 | It was the most exciting , extraordinary experience he had ever had , and for a long time afterwards he would bend any ear he could find on the subject . |
| 19 | Come the warm weather , all Ray could find on the pond walls was a fine , powdery , dark green algae which was easily vacuumed away . |
| 20 | From then on Augusto , at the time an economist with the World Bank , and Michaela — neither with a scrap of medical or scientific knowledge — read all the papers they could find on the disease , and research into its treatment . |
| 21 | Lili had bought it because it was the only work in English she could find at the bookstall . |
| 22 | It was the nearest base we could find to the track . |
| 23 | The family brought every scrap of evidence or information they could find to the RUC , but that much prayed for breakthrough in the case never came . |
| 24 | The material that I used was a lovely heavy cream bridal fabric , chosen because it was the closest equivalent I could find to the bride 's dress — surprisingly enough , she would n't let me chop a hole in the real thing ! |
| 25 | It amounts to the ‘ best ’ statistical description of the process determining which Barro could find for the period covered by his data . |
| 26 | Erm , on , I put in because it was the worst example I could find of the abuse of psychoanalysis for destroying somebody 's personality , personality assassination by , by er a psychoanalysis . |
| 27 | Petrol , food and a few tools had been his biggest expenses so far , and if the budget started to tighten he 'd have to stop buying food and see what he could find in the woodland around him . |
| 28 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 29 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 30 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |