Example sentences of "to find [pers pn] 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 has gone to find you a room , ’ said the Feldwebel , sitting down in front of the fire and stretching his legs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You could explain to your editor and ask her to find you a collaborator , a ghostwriter . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ‘ |
| 16 | ‘ Let me see your jewels , I might be able to find you a buyer who will give you a good price . |
| 17 | ‘ Have to find you a change of clothes , ’ he said . |
| 18 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 19 | Even Hun Sen , the Prime Minister , has asked the province committee to find him a village in Kep , according to Mr Sok Hay . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Conscious that he needed an heir , James now acquired a wife , having instructed the envoy sent to find him a suitable bride that she should not be ‘ too horrible ’ . |
| 23 | In 1829 , as the lad approached the age of 14 , decision time was coming ; if Benjamin had any yearning to go to sea like his brother , he seems to have kept it quiet , but there was every need to find him a safe and secure job with prospects . |
| 24 | Maybe a large catfish , or is it too late to find him a friend ? |
| 25 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 26 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 27 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 28 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 29 | She went to find him a pen and paper to write something for her so she could see , she could even be able to tell his character from his writing . |
| 30 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |