Example sentences of "find [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 ? ’
7 but found me an old yapp album ,
8 He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong .
9 The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle .
10 Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building .
15 Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt .
16 Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig .
17 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 .
18 Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released .
19 The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 As a child he was always adventurous and found everything a huge joke
23 When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer .
24 Deputy editor Janette Marshall went to interview him recently ( see p.36 ) and found herself a late arrival at his impromptu wedding breakfast .
25 Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers .
26 As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history .
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 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 ’ .
29 ‘ It would have been terribly unfair to him and any possible new owners to find him a new home when he was in such a terrible state .
30 Darlington borough councillor Paul Geldart last night revealed how Mr O'Hare had begged the authority to find him a new home .
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