Example sentences of "we [vb past] find [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early one morning , we tried to find a clerk in a department that sprawls across a full floor . |
| 2 | On our way home we tried to find a Mothers Day card for Mark to send to his Mum , but I think all the Dalseattie shops must have the same supplier and sell those ghastly pink-ish cards with really crass ditties inside ugh . |
| 3 | We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers . |
| 4 | We 'd found a gold mine . |
| 5 | We 'd found a balance . |
| 6 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 7 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 8 | After we 'd found the corpses of the assassins . |
| 9 | We cut into the same ventricle twice , believing we 'd found the other one . |
| 10 | Another day we returned to find an empty space where my harmonium should have been . |
| 11 | After that point , I started to write some much more original stuff and we began to find a style of our own . ’ |
| 12 | We needed to find a balance between them and help the regions to help themselves . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We needed to find a product that could meet all our current needs with the capability to meet future , unforeseen , developments , ’ says group reporting manager Ken Hassan . |
| 14 | We managed to find a corner . |
| 15 | We went to find a call-box . |
| 16 | In fact we did find a clear difference between the three- and the four-year-olds : the younger ones typically pointed to the box with the chocolate and the older children to the empty box . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 18 | However , we did find a strong influence on the occurrence of episodes severe enough to lead the mother to take the child to a clinic , and those that subsequently resulted in the child being admitted to hospital , as well as an effect on mortality . |
| 19 | We did find the Hall that was to be home for the next couple of nights , with a note pinned to the door giving directions to the pub where the rest of the Society had gathered . |
| 20 | There are few passenger-boat services up and down the Egyptian Nile railways and roads are quicker — but we hoped to find a felucca to hire for the day . |
| 21 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 22 | After Peter 's death in 1982 , we had to find a home for our private collection of 20,000 children 's books and comics . |
| 23 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |
| 24 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , television studios are strangely designed and dressing-rooms are often miles away from the studio , so we had to find a place where she and her entourage could relax in comfort without the need to climb stairs . |
| 26 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 27 | Because we had to find a nurse to ask |
| 28 | First we had to find a new propeller and this was delivered by Sam , an engineer from Technical Branch , who made a record marathon run in his tiny van from Southampton to join us at Oban . |
| 29 | Such a short time she was in my arms and then we had to find a hole in the earth to place her ; a piece of stone to mark her passing . |
| 30 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |