Example sentences of "find [pron] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 7 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 8 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As a child he was always adventurous and found everything a huge joke … |
| 14 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 15 | Deputy editor Janette Marshall went to interview him recently ( see p.36 ) and found herself a late arrival at his impromptu wedding breakfast . |
| 16 | At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith . |
| 17 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Darlington borough councillor Paul Geldart last night revealed how Mr O'Hare had begged the authority to find him a new home . |
| 22 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 23 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 24 | Laura asked the farm manager , Dai Davies , to find her a good Jersey milker and taught herself how to milk the cow . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As she increasingly became a historical figure herself , people found her a fascinating source of history for the inter-war period . |
| 27 | But Pascoe found her a great deal of help in restoring his rather worn manly pride . |
| 28 | At that time , he had offered to give her more extensive treatments — apparently , he found her a promising subject but she had n't had the cold kish to lay out . |
| 29 | He found her a chilly woman . |
| 30 | ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked . |