Example sentences of "find [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They find me useful , on occasion . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , find me one of those gazetteers from the files . |
| 3 | get me , find me more work he goes cos next week he 's gon na give me a blow job if I 'm lucky |
| 4 | ’ I think people find me obnoxious because I wo n't admit that I secretly loathe Kyle Minogue and Jason Donovan , but I really do think they 're great artists — if I did n't I 'd be the biggest hypocrite in the world . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I know some men find me attractive ! ’ she snapped . |
| 6 | A sheet lining will help keep your bag clean , although some folk find them restrictive . |
| 7 | The juvenile courts also had powers to place children in care , and the former children 's departments had to receive children in need of care and protection and find them substitute homes . |
| 8 | I find them easy enough , and give her the bottle . |
| 9 | Paraline drawings are useful because most people find them easy to understand , while their axonometric lines ( lines parallel to the x , y and z axes ) are true to scale . |
| 10 | We will have to wait and see whether women find them easy and/or pleasant to use . |
| 11 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 12 | But I find them all quite sympathetic , if you treat them properly . |
| 13 | I find them all delightful in the first and second year , something happens between the second year and the fourth year , and in the fourth year they seem to have lost interest in academic things . |
| 14 | But I do n't like actors that much — I find them egotistical and difficult to cope with , ’ she says . |
| 15 | Piranha — I personally find them uninteresting |
| 16 | I find them useful for flavouring game pies . |
| 17 | I know that local playgroups find them useful , certainly for skittles and as cone and ball games , but I though maybe if they were filled with some sort of plaster and decorated , they would make good door stops . |
| 18 | If your youngster overdoses and you find them drowsy or unconscious , here 's what to do : |
| 19 | Rabbits find them uncomfortable and they move out to warmer quarters . |
| 20 | Although these phenomena may frighten some patients , others find them tolerable or pleasant . |
| 21 | Even if , at first reading , you find them formidable , when you come to answer them you will be surprised that they become much easier than you had imagined . |
| 22 | erm and I just find them easier to cope with . |
| 23 | ‘ I can remove them if you find them objectionable , ’ she said sharply . |
| 24 | First , I find them some chocolate . |
| 25 | I find them dreadful especially in the city itself |
| 26 | I have given the above observations explicitly because they are the necessary foundations for later investigation and many people have trouble observing them , even though others find them obvious . |
| 27 | At first they irritate a bit but when you are used to them you find them serviceable . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps because his stories are so worked and practised , I find them useless as raw material . |
| 29 | So many people visit the countryside and pick wild flowers because they find them pretty , only to have those flowers wilt and die long before they can be arranged in a vase . |
| 30 | ‘ I find them indispensable , ’ said Richard . |