Example sentences of "find [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We also decided that Mike would have to take every third day off to recover , while Christophe continued to follow the chimps , so that he and Mike would know where to find them the following day .
3 So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral .
4 He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike .
5 Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta .
6 They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains .
7 Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’
8 but found me an old yapp album ,
9 Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine .
10 He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong .
11 The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle .
12 Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule .
13 Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world .
14 He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary .
15 There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man .
16 When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building .
17 Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt .
18 Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig .
19 Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen .
20 Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released .
21 The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers .
22 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 .
23 Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market .
24 As a child he was always adventurous and found everything a huge joke
25 When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer .
26 Deputy editor Janette Marshall went to interview him recently ( see p.36 ) and found herself a late arrival at his impromptu wedding breakfast .
27 At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith .
28 Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers .
29 As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history .
30 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 .
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