Example sentences of "they had find a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They had to find a way of drawing Nadirpur out .
2 He arrived here very late , and they had to find a bunk for him on Rochester .
3 To stop muddy water getting into the valves , they had to find an alcove in the roof , and create an artificial air bell by opening a tank and filling the alcove with air .
4 In America , where they often performed , the trains struck them as poignant chiefly because uncared for , but they had found a friend with a long New England face who was a fireman on the run to Boston , and his professionalism and high interest in the topic of transport were entirely cheering .
5 Police in north India , meanwhile , said they had found a cache of 6lb of RDX plastic explosive , similar to that used in the Bombay bombs .
6 This profession , which most members had come to brimming with conviction that they had found a way of linking their idealism to an honourable way of earning a living , has been devastated by continuous attack from the media .
7 They had found a witness who confirmed that one of their prime suspects had left the party at the right time to murder Nicola .
8 After years of ticking over , the company realised they had found a group with the determination and talent worthy of excessive backing .
9 In 1990 , to great excitement , Kenneth Blum of the University of Texas at San Antonio , and Ernest Noble of the University of California , Los Angeles , announced that they had found a gene peculiarly common among alcoholics .
10 They had found a patch of clean sand half-shaded by the rocks that were heaped on one side of the little cove .
11 ‘ The forensic people told us that they had found a trace of paper in his nostrils .
12 They had found a paper in the literature describing the ratio of helium-3 and helium-4 in volcanic regions and were unknowingly getting close to the origins of Chatterjee 's ideas in India .
13 Staff at the hospital had been amazed they had found a donor so quickly and her husband was overwhelmed by the speed of the events .
14 In the Masai the British believed they had found an audience capable of appreciating their own greatness of soul .
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