Example sentences of "she [verb] find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She failed to find a donor in time to save Anthony , who died , aged just seven , but since then the register has helped to save hundreds of lives and continues to provide a vital service . |
| 2 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 3 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 4 | As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 . |
| 5 | By emphasizing the spiritual potential of women , Leapor believes that she has found a more reasonable and more durable standard of value . |
| 6 | She has found a little place in the country . |
| 7 | With her sensuous smile and her bare shoulders , she could be likened to a contented cat who knows she has found a good home . |
| 8 | The British assessment was that the United States had no long-term interest in Korea and had no scheme to extend sufficient economic or military aid to render a south Korean administration viable : ‘ It is probably therefore the American intention to pull out herself , as soon as she has found a face-saving formula for doing so . ’ |
| 9 | Meanwhile she has given the impression that , by looking to the earliest community of women and men , she has found a way for women to be Christian . |
| 10 | She has found a number of old photographs that will come as a great surprise to me . |
| 11 | Her mum says : ‘ As far as I am concerned , she has found a great lad . |
| 12 | What this means is she has to find a job fast . |
| 13 | John 's wife Sheila told of her shock when she woke to find a gun trained on them at their home in Bromley , Kent . |
| 14 | Early this morning she woke to find a masked gang standing in her bedroom . |
| 15 | The next day , there 's an advert in the paper — that she 'd found a black and white dog and handed it in to the police at Aigburth . |
| 16 | In one square , she 'd found a statue of Cyrano de Bergerac , his famous nose sadly foreshortened , probably by vandals , but otherwise much as Rostand had envisaged him . |
| 17 | Eventually , she 'd found a way to endure her moments spent on stage . |
| 18 | She was n't broke — she 'd found a job selling cosmetics at Macy 's , just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan . |
| 19 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 20 | Eventually she seemed to find a gap in the blackout and , her enormous behind reared aloft , she glued her eye to the glass . |
| 21 | Could she have found a strategy for comparing the areas ? |
| 22 | How she managed to find a smile for Ivo when she saw him waiting for her in the foyer , she did n't know . |
| 23 | Several emotions battered her at once then , so how she managed to find a voice that was as cool as his she would never know . |
| 24 | She tries to find a way through and because she 's patient and understanding she gets there . |
| 25 | She spun to find a little bald woman — Chesarynth 's mind seized upon the woman 's finger-socket as though it were the badge of some sisterhood — and said , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 26 | In the panniers , she did find a supply of Good Ole Home Cooking — Oreos , Hershey Bars , Babe Ruths , Wrigley 's Gum , Pork Popsicles . |
| 27 | She did n't find it , but buried right down at the bottom she did find a tape cassette in a box . |
| 28 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 29 | Hoped to God she had found a leaf somewhere . |
| 30 | She had found a sweet lover where there had been no love . |