Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly there is some chicanery going on and perhaps in due course we will find out the truth . |
| 2 | In due course you should find ways to reward the achievements of those who have acted on your behalf . |
| 3 | But they 're not like real Rickenbacker necks , since they have kicked-back headstocks and no walnut stripes , and in fact they look and feel like the standard Korean-issue necks you 'd find on a hundred other guitars . |
| 4 | And because of its reduced nasal cavities it may find breathing increasingly difficult as it grows older . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a very complicated work , and the singers have a great deal of text to cope with , without the benefit of the usual repetitions you would find in a conventional requiem . |
| 6 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 7 | Even in electronic mail I could find myself — and I see this among women colleagues — adopting a more relaxed approach . |
| 8 | Appeals will surely ensue but in the meantime we may well sympathise with those Soprintendenze who feel tempted to put all restoration work on hold in the fear that in carrying out their proper duties they may find themselves being sentenced as criminals . |
| 9 | All in all , Ontario people offer a cultural blend you 'll find nowhere else on earth . |
| 10 | By combining these different ideas you will find fabrics that resemble woven linen , hopsack-look cloth and even lacy-look materials . |
| 11 | We do have an ever constant worry about finance and on the back page you will find our latest Fund Raising Appeal . |
| 12 | Now 2,400 troops will have to queue with locals in freezing conditions for whatever public phones they can find . |
| 13 | In pursuit of land reform , in a country without large inequalities in ownership , party militants shot any old man they could find who had a few more acres than the rest , or whose social position , as arbiter of disputes , set him apart from others . |
| 14 | Early in this century , a half-Tsimshian called William Benyon ( he would have been called a ‘ half-breed ’ in the contemporary books of my childhood ) , interviewed all the tribal elders he could find and wrote their stories down . |
| 15 | The other interesting thing you would find about vocabulary and treatment between the tabloids and the Independent is the Independent has a policy of very little coverage of the Royal Family and I suspect that other than a paragraph or a sentence or two of introduction , that those four paragraphs at the foot of the page are simply the text of her speech courtiers and media blamed as the Princess retreats from public life , I suspect that you will find that that is not a story , it is simply a statement of fact and an actual reprint of the text of her speech . |
| 16 | If a large predatory bird sits in a conspicuous position it may find itself being mobbed by smaller birds , which call , display , and even attempt to dive-bomb it with pecking attacks . |
| 17 | In their calm faces I can find no clues |
| 18 | ‘ He always won , ’ Beaverbrook said , ‘ he always beat me — the toughest and most unscrupulous politician you could find — cold , merciless in his dislikes . ’ |
| 19 | So for example in a region of high productivity you may find very low concentrations of carbonate because it 's been stripped out and converted to skeletal material being used in photosynthesis . |
| 20 | Applying eyeliner can be a tricky business ( see page 82 ) , but if you really love that 50s look , Lenthéric 's Eye-Definer is the best liquid liner we could find . |
| 21 | So if you just generally think about the idioms like that , frozen pieces of language and fixed meanings you 'll find they come in formed sentences and subject expressions and verb phrases but not subject verb . |
| 22 | If you can find time for basic personal hygiene you can find time for exercise . |
| 23 | It has the only real harbour you can find on the Atlantic side of France south of Bordeaux , a good sheltered anchorage that is also the entrance to the river . |
| 24 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 25 | In the following chapter you will find some practical ways of helping this process still further . |
| 26 | I reckon when we get the actual shoes we may find some more . |
| 27 | In the following exercise you must find what feature or features certain groups of segments have in common ; you will probably find it useful to look at the IPA chart on pp. 40–1 . |
| 28 | The only real difference you can find between Sega and Nintendo users is penis size . |
| 29 | In any one hectare of tropical forest you may find trees of one hundred different types and each individual may be widely separated from others of the same species . |
| 30 | On the medium-side-of-sweet palate you 'll find hints of lime , quince and plum . |