Example sentences of "to find [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed Noah wanted the magistrate to find nothing with which he could possibly take issue . |
| 2 | How many times have you flicked through the TV channels to find nothing worth watching ? |
| 3 | But if we try to abstract , as far as possible , from the local value of the impressions which affect different parts of our skins , we seem to find nothing like a really qualitative difference in the sensations . ’ |
| 4 | Believe it or not , Robyn , but some women are quite pleased to find me on their doorstep at midnight . ’ |
| 5 | About Feargal coming to find me at Rosslare ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
| 7 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 8 | ‘ To find me in rollicking good humour , basking in my good fortune ? ’ |
| 9 | Your tone , you know , not only suggested surprise to find me in bed , but also condemnation that I should be here . |
| 10 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 11 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 12 | One is hard pressed even to find them in London . |
| 13 | Old people in particular often ensure each night before they go to bed that their house is tidy and their last instructions are by their bed in case they should die in the night and someone will have to find them in the morning . |
| 14 | It would not surprise most linguists to find them in women 's speech , because they are absolutely normal in all speech . |
| 15 | Especially unusual to find them in a Tyrian , because as a rule Tyrians only care about making money . |
| 16 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |
| 17 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 18 | Since the other Nematodirus species do not have such critical hatching requirements , a sudden flush of L3 does not occur and although N. filicollis , N. spathiger and N. helvetianus have all been associated with outbreaks of nematodiriasis in sheep and cattle , it is more common to find them in conjunction with the other trichostrongyles . |
| 19 | For most of the folk immortalised by Louisa 's busy camera seem to have wanted posterity to find them in their Sunday best . |
| 20 | Blind , deaf , but able to smell ; able to find them by the food smell , even in this raging , wind-swept , rain-driven night … |
| 21 | We can not , at the moment at least , predict the values of these numbers from theory — we have to find them by observation . |
| 22 | Spencer said easily , ‘ I think you might have been a little more enthusiastic about such lovely slippers , they are a work of art , you must be very pleased to find someone with the talent to work as well as the best London shoemakers and at a fraction of the price , if I 'm any judge . ’ |
| 23 | In the beginning , one feels , Lear must have been relieved and excited to find someone with as equally compelling an interest in birds as himself . |
| 24 | You want the papers you 've yet to find someone with a painting and |
| 25 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 26 | And then all of a sudden it was ‘ do you think she 's nice , come on , is that your type we 've got to find someone for you ’ . |
| 27 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But faced with the dilemma of what would be best for her four young children in the meantime Nikki , from Mountmichael Park , had considered trying to find someone to temporarily look after them . |
| 30 | ‘ Still trying to find someone from Spidex ? ’ |