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 | but found me an old yapp album , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 17 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As a child he was always adventurous and found everything a huge joke … |
| 20 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 21 | Deputy editor Janette Marshall went to interview him recently ( see p.36 ) and found herself a late arrival at his impromptu wedding breakfast . |
| 22 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Darlington borough councillor Paul Geldart last night revealed how Mr O'Hare had begged the authority to find him a new home . |
| 27 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 28 | Laura asked the farm manager , Dai Davies , to find her a good Jersey milker and taught herself how to milk the cow . |
| 29 | She says she did the Byrd show ‘ because I found her a fascinating part of the underground scene in New York , and I felt somebody should expose her to a bigger market . |
| 30 | As she increasingly became a historical figure herself , people found her a fascinating source of history for the inter-war period . |