Example sentences of "i find the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 2 | Could you help me to find the history of my SWB lightweight IIA , chassis number 23600870A ? |
| 3 | It was always a shock to me to find the life of the University town going along normally , as though the war was happening somewhere else . |
| 4 | Could it have been to make up for Cymbeline 's cheating that the Umpire permitted me to find the sacristy so easily ? |
| 5 | Erm all he 's been doing here is getting me to find the sides . |
| 6 | I put my hands behind me to find the pillar , found it and pushed myself up , hoping my feet would n't slip on the beer-wet floor . |
| 7 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |
| 8 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 9 | I originally gained the co-operated of the headmaster , who allowed me to come into the school , and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative in fact , far more co-operative than I really high a right to expect . |
| 10 | ‘ I found the Archives in my mother 's loft . |
| 11 | I found the SD Ribbon especially successful with complex , large scale music ( choral , operatic , large orchestral ) where its scale and authority , and well defined and authoritative midband were allowed to do their best . |
| 12 | I found the sack very comfortable considering the simplicity of the back system and was pleased to find that it was long enough for me to use the waist belt properly . |
| 13 | In use I found the sack comfortable and stable to carry with the back just long enough for me to use the hip belt , which was functional , if a little basic . |
| 14 | A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did . |
| 15 | In one I found the bottles and glasses as described , and took them aft . |
| 16 | I went into the garden and I found the cat up a tree . |
| 17 | I found the warning note in the booklet of ‘ extensively wide dynamic range ’ a little uncalled-for , although the contrasts between Latin motets and vernacular songs do bring a fair range from quietest to loudest passages , all captured in true highfidelity sound . |
| 18 | I decided to study linguistics at M.I.T. Although I learned a great deal , particularly regarding rigorous methods in linguistics , I must confess that the M.I.T. approach to linguistics was too narrow for my taste , and I found the hothouse atmosphere there somewhat uncomfortable . |
| 19 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 20 | Save for his own contribution and not out of slavish concurrence with his views , I found the talks even duller to read than to hear . |
| 21 | As one with wide , if not indeed indiscriminating , predilections of this sort throughout Scotland ( with some reservations which it would be unseemly to dwell upon here ) , I found the cases of Johnne Brughe of Fossiway ( pp 597 et seq ) , Bruce of Clackmannan contra Merschell ( pp 603 et seq ) , Stewartis contra Merser ( pp 563–571 ) and John Thomesone & utheris contra John Scott ( pp 783–785 ) of clear and cogent delight to read , while the plangent record of time long byegone in James Swan ( pp 742–743 ) where the worthy cautioner of the accused was ordained to make good the ‘ payne of one hundred merkis ’ imposed for the unlawful taking of salmon on the River Cart inspires thought too deep to utter . |
| 22 | Chapter 3 provides information on a variety of religious faiths , and it was here I found the text least satisfactory . |
| 23 | I found the windows version easier to use , as all the commands are available at the top of the screen in the form of buttons ( in true windows format ) , all you need to do is to click on the required command . |
| 24 | I found the gully awe inspiring in the mist . |
| 25 | But I found the home which his cousin Ibrahim owned next to the Tel Aviv — Jaffa port railway line . |
| 26 | Coming from teaching in the South , Basil and I found the West Riding stimulating , and I think he would have agreed that we ourselves developed . |
| 27 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 28 | I was allowed to record each group and I found the transcribing of the tapes less arduous as I had also been able to make notes . |
| 29 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 30 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |