Example sentences of "did [not/n't] find [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Partnerships did not find themselves suddenly in receipt of substantial resources deflected from other local-authority budgets . |
| 2 | But the rest either did not find them so , or did not consider it relevant to their teaching of mathematics . |
| 3 | She did not find it too difficult to go into a small shop — say , the local newsagent or the greengrocer at the corner of the street — as she was never too far from the window or the door . |
| 4 | ‘ Nah , they did n't find nothing here . |
| 5 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 6 | Or perhaps she simply did n't find them all that amusing . |
| 7 | He did n't find one though . |
| 8 | He did n't find her remotely attractive , and the meal and wine were simply fuel to replenish spent energy , not a prelude to seduction . |
| 9 | After you 'd totally devastated me by saying you did n't find me remotely attractive , I was left racking my brains to think of a way to change your mind . |
| 10 | his his delivery I found very solid , I mean I did n't find it particularly humorous but I mean people were n't laughing that much were they ? |
| 11 | I did n't find it particularly hard actually . |
| 12 | She hid it inside a pile of nappies , so I did n't find it straight away . ’ |
| 13 | The letters took ages but somehow Rebecca did n't find it so difficult this time . |
| 14 | She did n't find it as easy as he seemed to do . |
| 15 | I hope she did n't find it as easy as she told them , if you shut them up in their room . |
| 16 | I did n't find it as hard as I thought . |
| 17 | Albert asked him once if he did n't find it agonizingly painful on the calves , especially in the case of an attempt to stop , but the child obviously did n't know what his father was talking about . |
| 18 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 19 | And housing boss Donald Gledson stressed : ‘ We did n't find it very funny , especially as his argument is with the planning department . |
| 20 | There 's a whole school of psycho- history mainly in the United States , not many followers here , and er , I must admit , I , I used to have er a class on psycho-history on this course , and I dropped it , and the reason was , I think students did n't find it very satisfactory , and the literature was of such poor quality . |
| 21 | It was on before and I did n't find it very funny at all ! |
| 22 | ‘ They did n't find it there , did they , Gazzer ? |
| 23 | I hope that you did n't find it too abstract . |
| 24 | So that you can in the end , when I came to do it , although it was seventeen people I did n't find it too difficult . |
| 25 | ‘ That I did n't find you remotely attractive ! ’ she groaned , laughing and burying her face on his chest . |
| 26 | The pint of beer on the doorstep was the only perk that there was — you did n't find anything else . |
| 27 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 28 | I did n't find anything very strange in it , either . |
| 29 | She did n't find anyone very admirable , had reservations about people who devoted their lives to the care of the sick , and she did n't go ‘ Aah ’ over babies and brides or the Princess of Wales . |