Example sentences of "[vb mod] find [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You 'll find him on the practice pitch . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you wish to meet the dog , ’ she whispered , ‘ you 'll find him on the island . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , but you 'll find him in the bar at the nearest race meeting to London . |
| 5 | When there 's no racing nearby , you 'll find him in the Garrick Club . ’ |
| 6 | You 'll find him in the Royalbion Hospitality Unit . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | You 'll find them at the very end of , of chapter twenty eight . |
| 9 | You 'll find them in the wine sections , priced from £2.49 to Pounds 2.79 for 200ml . |
| 10 | There are starters , main courses and side dishes and you 'll find them in the freezer cabinet . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll find her in the drawing-room , ’ Dot heard Mrs Hollidaye say . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | This is quite a challenging assignment , but you 'll find it worth the effort . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Oh that 's erm ah yes , I should try to use the calculator if I could find it on the machine ! |
| 16 | Doubted if I could find it in the undergrowth . |
| 17 | If we could find a heightened sense of beauty in the world of a prison camp , I thought , surely we could find it in the great free world of which we dreamed ? |
| 18 | But , before she could find it in the darkness , he switched on the bedside lamp , and her face flamed with colour as he turned to look at her , his eyes darkening as they swept freely over her nakedness . |
| 19 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 20 | That I 'd find you in the office as usual at this time . |
| 21 | If there was any popular support for Saddam Hussein anywhere in Iraq after the disasters of the war , I thought I 'd find it in the Sunni Moslem towns on the Tigris north of Baghdad . |
| 22 | Maybe I shall find them among the dead . |
| 23 | Amongst the great majority , the faith of earlier centuries persisted , at least outwardly ; indeed , if we look for a movement of thought and feeling that by the end of the century had penetrated into every class of society except the highest , we shall find it in the revival of ‘ vital religion ’ , or ‘ enthusiasm ’ , as it was also called . |
| 24 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
| 25 | Whenever she was not working in the house or on the vegetable patch , Endill would find her in the rickety old shed beside the wall he sometimes climbed to hunt for nests in the trees above . |
| 26 | You will find him at the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm an optimist : I think there 's a fifty-fifty chance that we will find them in the next twenty years . |
| 28 | I would be extremely interested to know the thinking behind this policy , and look forward to your assurance that next time I buy Spare Rib from W H Smith I will find it in the Women 's Section . |
| 29 | Perhaps we will find it in the highly-influential work of the Swiss thinker , Jean Piaget . |
| 30 | If Mr Major and his Chancellor are still not sure of the size of their task , they will find it in the latest TODAY/ICM Feelgood Index , which measures consumer confidence . |