Example sentences of "finding [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mestizo dug his thumb into his cocaine pouch and cursed at finding only a few grains on the nail . |
| 2 | Masses of willow warblers , chiff-chaffs , blackcaps , whitethroats and sometimes yellow-browed or Pallas 's warblers will set the pulses racing , and the flocks of chaffinch and brambling will be painstakingly examined in the hope of finding perhaps a little bunting , rustic bunting or Arctic redpoll . |
| 3 | If I tried , the package would probably look as though it contained a designer gazebo for the centre of the potager , and in those circumstances , finding just a plain spade among all the Christmas paper , would be bound to disappoint ! |
| 4 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |
| 5 | Compass errors are an awful nuisance and it is well worth finding out a little about them . |
| 6 | Not because I wanted to go back to my childhood but because I had a deep , healthy interest in finding out a bit more about what was happening while I was growing up . |
| 7 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 8 | A new theoretical formulation or a new analogy can be immensely important in furthering knowledge ; certainly just as much as can finding out a new fact . |
| 9 | First off though our reporter Fiona Mcbride has been finding out a bit more about Glasgay . |
| 10 | Fancy setting up a credit union or finding out a bit more about how one works ? |
| 11 | So we have no hope of finding here a common reason for rejecting checkerboard solutions . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind that in many villages there is little chance of finding even a monkey wrench , it is easy to see why speedy repairs are often impossible . |
| 13 | Instead of finding there a source of order which their theories would lead them to expect , they are shocked and insulted to find yet another example of lack of strength . |
| 14 | However , when he returned in 1908 to the foreign ministry in St Petersburg he was struck by finding there a considerable number of women typists who " filled the offices , walked arm in arm in the corridors , and flirted with everybody " . |
| 15 | But you 'll be finding quite a few of the Scots in here tonight . ’ |
| 16 | In either case safety lies in finding either a windproof covering or a sheltered corner as soon as possible . |
| 17 | A link between these mechanisms and sudden infant death could be validated by finding prospectively a similar pathophysiology during the first event in a previously well infant . |