Example sentences of "we [vb past] find a " 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 | After that point , I started to write some much more original stuff and we began to find a style of our own . ’ |
| 8 | We needed to find a balance between them and help the regions to help themselves . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | We managed to find a corner . |
| 11 | We went to find a call-box . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 17 | After Peter 's death in 1982 , we had to find a home for our private collection of 20,000 children 's books and comics . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Because we had to find a nurse to ask |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 26 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |
| 27 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 28 | John Rhead arrived and , after only a few minutes , we knew we had found a genuine birder . |
| 29 | We had found a vital step along the route from synapse to nucleus . |
| 30 | We visited Oslo Fjord with only six 250lb bombs and that would not do much damage even if we had found a target ( which we did not ) . |