Example sentences of "in [noun] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 2 | So it was naturally with great affection and nostalgia that as an adult I laced up my boots on a damp October morning at the starting point in the station car park at Bridge of Orchy , in preparation to find out what really lurked at the top of Beinn Dorain . |
| 3 | He says the council wants the RAF to join in discussions to find a solution . |
| 4 | I went to the bar racks , the caserna , in Fontanellato to find out when my father was going to be released , but was told that they did not know , for he was in the hands of the Secret Police . |
| 5 | After a year abroad , Laura and Bernard drove up to Rhydoldog in snow to find that Ruby and Molly , as a welcoming gesture , had put out the French flag on the lawn . |
| 6 | Even though it is undoubtedly more common in practice to find phrases — such as perhaps gutted and cleaned — as postnominal non-restrictive qualifiers , the single adjective is also fully acceptable to English grammar . |
| 7 | A month after the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into voluntary liquidation , creditors owed nearly a third of a million pounds , met at a hotel in Thame to find out why . |
| 8 | It is far from unknown for an expert reader who provides an unfavourable report on a book in manuscript to find it nevertheless being published a year or so later . |
| 9 | Michaela Dyson returned home from a holiday in Spain to find a one-ton cube of crushed metal on her driveway where her Ford Cortina had once stood . |
| 10 | I advise owners of small dogs who have to leave their pets in kennels to find one that specialises in little dogs . |
| 11 | Agencies exist in Scotland to find locations for film and video companies and they know what facilities we can offer , on a commercial basis . |
| 12 | ‘ the whole object of the section is to assimilate the practice in winding up to the practice in bankruptcy , which was established in order to enable assignees , who are now called trustees , in bankruptcy to find out facts before they brought an action , so as to avoid incurring the expense of some hundreds of pounds in bringing an unsuccessful action , when they might , by examining a witness or two , have discovered at a trifling expense that an action could not succeed . |
| 13 | Sharp shooters such as Lone Star , Josey Wales and Dead are in town to find the fastest draw . |
| 14 | I went on an introductory course with ParAvion in Wiltshire to find out if I liked paragliding any better . |
| 15 | When Penry returned he smiled in approval to find her propped tidily against the pillows , covers drawn up to her chin . |
| 16 | Opposition leaders believe that more could have been done in Geneva to find an international solution . |
| 17 | Pigs are used in experiments to find out more about gastric ulcers , muscular dystrophy , alcoholism and obesity . |
| 18 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 19 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 20 | NIGEL MANSELL 'S old boss Frank Williams will be waiting on the sidelines today as motor sport 's top brass sit down in Paris to find a way of saving next year 's Grand Prix calendar and prevent his Williams team from paying a massive fine . |
| 21 | So I 'm staying in Venice to find out for myself what 's been going on . ’ |
| 22 | He passed the summer at Bec , and reached Rome in October to find that messengers from the king had also recently arrived . |
| 23 | Police in race to find deadly poison |
| 24 | Last year , a Corrective Action Team was set up in Chlor-Chemicals to find ways in which the existing stock of drums and cylinders could support a required 25% increase in chlorine business while avoiding major capital expenditure on new packaging . |
| 25 | You have to look hard in Christendom to find a Christian culture which has not become privatised . |
| 26 | THE search is on in Cleveland to find the best and most useful new device to crack crime . |
| 27 | Will look silly if I have to spend time driving around in circles to find it . |
| 28 | ‘ We do not doubt that the ( East German Communist Party ) is able through co-operation with all forces in society to find answers to all those questions which arise through the development of the republic and which interest its citizens , ’ he told the huge audience gathered in the Palace of the Republic . |
| 29 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 30 | Indeed pretty hands can be one of the most difficult things for a PRO working in beauty to find . |