Example sentences of "find [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 2 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 3 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 4 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
| 5 | Find them at 22 Coronet St. Cynthia Payne , eat your heart out |
| 6 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |
| 7 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 8 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 9 | Day by day her bewilderment increased , and , such was the fascination exercised upon the mind by these anarchic powers , she might find herself at any step allured in folly , and dizzily unaware of her plight . |
| 10 | On several occasions I would find myself at 1,000 ft or above , and the undercarriage was still down : the flaps , if we had put any out , were still down : the engines were belting away in line pitch ; and the mixture control remained where it was — in rich . |