Example sentences of "to find [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Her business to find me a pretty and agreeable companion , that 's what she said . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Look , it 's terribly kind of you to find me a place to stay , but you must let me give you the money . |
| 3 | I was treated like a servant so I asked Freddie to find me a place of my own . |
| 4 | They showed me a bedspace and Alex went off to find me a tracksuit . |
| 5 | I contacted my social worker and told her that I could not stay at this place and that she would have to find me a Cheshire Home . |
| 6 | I got her through my old friend , Blandly , who , with everyone in Bristol , worked hard to find me a suitable ship when they heard the reason for our voyage — treasure , I mean . |
| 7 | They keep saying they 're going to find me a house and say they 're going to buy me one . |
| 8 | He details his daily struggle : trying to treat patients as he knows he can , yet unable to find them a hospital bed or specialist referral . |
| 9 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 10 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 11 | Hungary has appealed to foreign zoos to find them a home . |
| 12 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 13 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 14 | So it is back to Portugal these Portugals can go , and tell Dom João to find himself a wife elsewhere . " |
| 15 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 16 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 17 | IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive . |
| 18 | ‘ He has gone to find you a room , ’ said the Feldwebel , sitting down in front of the fire and stretching his legs . |
| 19 | It would please me , Joan , when the time comes and my daughter 's marriage to Prince Richard is completed , to find you a suitable husband . |
| 20 | ‘ You could explain to your editor and ask her to find you a collaborator , a ghostwriter . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Aye , got better than that , William Davies , ’ Hari said , ‘ come on , I might be able to find you a bit of soup as well as some bread . ‘ |
| 22 | ‘ Let me see your jewels , I might be able to find you a buyer who will give you a good price . |
| 23 | ‘ Have to find you a change of clothes , ’ he said . |
| 24 | So we thought we 'd riffle through the rails of leading dancewear manufacturers to find something a shade more exciting than saggy tracksuit bottoms . |
| 25 | She was about to find herself a seat when she caught sight of him , in conversation with a rather pretty dark young woman , both of them laughing a lot . |
| 26 | Puzzled and anxious and feeling very flat , after the heady excitement of her flight , Sara picked up her bags and went to find herself a seat on the bus going into London . |
| 27 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 28 | Even Hun Sen , the Prime Minister , has asked the province committee to find him a village in Kep , according to Mr Sok Hay . |
| 29 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 30 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |