Example sentences of "[noun prp] to find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus . |
| 2 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |
| 3 | It had been the property of Mrs Stratton 's first husband , and it was he who had expressed the wish , as stated in his will , that it be returned to England to find a permanent place in the Ashmolean Museum with its counterpart , the Wolvercote Buckle . |
| 4 | Firemen from Thornaby and Stockton were called to Robert Street , Thornaby to find a large amount of tyres well alight at the rear of Britannia Garage . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked Jaggers to find a little girl for me to adopt , and he brought Estella here , when she was about three . ’ |
| 6 | Another message — ‘ Ease his pain ’ — sends the farmer off to Boston to find a reclusive novelist ( James Earl Jones ) and a third imprecation from the skies — ‘ Go the distance ’ has him looking for another old baseballer ( Burt Lancaster ) who played just once for the New York Giants before becoming a much-loved doctor . |