Example sentences of "find [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , you guessed it , DJ has to find them all in another epic arcade adventure : DJ Puff 's Volcanic Caper . |
| 2 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 3 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 4 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 5 | I suggest your boyfriend might be a little miffed to find you asleep beside another man . ’ |
| 6 | The jury took four hours yesterday after a nine-day trial to find him guilty of five charges of indecent assault . |
| 7 | A French jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three-day trial in Paris . |
| 8 | The jury found him guilty on 23 charges in a 38-count indictment . |
| 9 | His fellow-curates found him liable to vast silences , during which he twisted a bit of cotton with the fingers of both hands . |
| 10 | Harrington at once leapt into a slit trench in great haste , only to find it full of barbed wire which inflicted severe lacerations on him . |
| 11 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 12 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 13 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 14 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
| 15 | Invaluable experience , of course , but I found it frustrating in that , so often , I was n't able to see cases right through . ’ |
| 16 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 17 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 18 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 19 | She says , ‘ I found it difficult at first having to relinquish the coaching responsibilities , but it was great working with Rob . |
| 20 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 21 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 23 | For obvious reasons , many of the Dutch settlers in Cape Town found it expedient under English rule to become anglicized , although those who had moved inland maintained their national identity . |
| 24 | In his tract justifying the activities of the Commons in the Parliament of 1701 , when the Tories had made a number of attacks on the policies of the Court Whigs , culminating in the attempted impeachment of some of the Junto Lords , the High Anglican Tory , James Drake , found it plausible in one place to quote Algernon Sidney in support of his argument about the rights of the lower House ; the tract as a whole , however , makes it clear that Drake can in no way be considered a convert to Sidney 's particular brand of radical Whiggery . |
| 25 | Next morning found us deep in subterranean Rims . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , find me one of those gazetteers from the files . |
| 27 | Perhaps because his stories are so worked and practised , I find them useless as raw material . |
| 28 | ‘ Roger Shallot , ’ the magistrate thundered , ‘ we find you guilty of these terrible murders and so you must pay the full penalty of the law . |
| 29 | The user finds it difficult to narrow down his or her search . |
| 30 | I offer as an example some of my own Inspector Ghote novels , particularly the early ones , since I have found it possible in recent years to shift , as it were , Ghote 's character into higher , more serious gear . |