Example sentences of "find [indef pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We note that the court found nothing in the wording of section 2 which persuaded them that the course taken in A. v. H.M. |
| 2 | Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen . |
| 3 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 4 | If a computer printed out that its memory was suffering from a certain kind of fault , we might be persuaded from past experience to go on examining its hardware for faults , even though we found none in the initially plausible places . |
| 5 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 6 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 7 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 8 | Girls who could n't get themselves a husband in this country were sent out to find one in the colonies and it seldom failed . ’ |
| 9 | They wanted a new start and found one in the form of nearby Hangman 's Wood , owned by the Marley Paving company . |
| 10 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 11 | Then he went to bed , having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp . |
| 12 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 13 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 14 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 16 | I find nothing in the Act to indicate that Parliament thought or intended to lay down that indulgence in these practices is not corrupting . |
| 17 | Hobbs v. Clark was considered and followed in two further driver 's option cases , Director of Public Prosecutions v. Magill [ 1988 ] R.T.R. 337 and Regan v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1990 ] R.T.R. 102 , but I find nothing in the judgments in these cases which provides independent support for what I have called the doctrine of driver 's preference . |
| 18 | West Country Living : Houses with a clubhouse attached Roy White finds plenty in the area to attract the golfer , including homes a chip shot away from a course . |
| 19 | My mother obviously found something in the house . |
| 20 | Morse seemed to think you 'd found something in the safe which Matthew regarded as a negotiable asset . ’ |
| 21 | One day he finds something in the bottom of his shower . |
| 22 | I mixed it up when I wrote it down If you find something in the text books looks about right and similar to that , use the text book version , I might have written it down wrong . |
| 23 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 24 | But I have not found anything in the careful judgment of Mustill L.J . |
| 25 | When she saw them she was going to tell them about the tea and in the same breath demand to know what they had found and why Cobalt had anticipated finding anything in the Villa Fiesole . |
| 26 | I could find nothing in the text to justify such an idea , but my aunt said she knew by ‘ feminine intuition ’ . |
| 27 | He thinks you will find nothing in the mountains but stone and snow . |
| 28 | We are confident that they will find nothing in the application which is ‘ incompatible with the statutory objective or the general principle of the Act ’ . |
| 29 | We could always find something in the law to help us . |
| 30 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |