Example sentences of "find [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every king from James I to James V ( though not Mary ) built ; as with the great guns and the great ships , so they managed to find money for the great buildings . |
| 2 | He said : ’ I reserve my position on that because I have not only got to find money for the welfare changes . |
| 3 | He found sanctuary in the Priory church . |
| 4 | One such was the Duke of Richmond who found Sussex in the 1740s in the midst of what a number of local historians have rightly described as a ‘ guerilla war ’ . |
| 5 | Sometimes — now , for instance — I look down on Tod , on John , as a mother might ( mother night ) , and try to find hope in the innocence or neutrality of his sleep So now we wake up a new man . |
| 6 | In accordance with Sod 's law , I found resistance in the final section . |
| 7 | Rather than being suppressed , these articles found support in the more mainstream and consequently more orthodox ( party ) newspapers such as Renmin Ribao and Guangming Ribao . |
| 8 | It found support in the professional and middle classes , and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability . |
| 9 | He found support in the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts and Rubenianum in Antwerp who were able to secure funds from the Crédit Communal de Belgique for an exhibition that would display the achievement of Flemish painting as part of Antwerp 's celebrations in 1993 as Cultural Capital of Europe . |
| 10 | This proposal found support in the work of Lord Kelvin , the pioneer Victorian geophysicist , who attempted to calculate the age of the Earth from its probable rate of cooling on the assumption that it had formed as a molten offshoot of the Sun . |
| 11 | The sport is now obliged to find income from the more normal sources of television and sponsorship , to replace his largely unacknowledged private patronage . |
| 12 | For pupils of below average ability it is not so unusual to find discussions of the whole curriculum taking place , perhaps because of their perceived ‘ low ’ status or because there are no public examination constraints . |
| 13 | I do not know how easy it will be to find Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow outside Japan . |
| 14 | She found William at the bar . |
| 15 | When Hari returned home , she found William in the workshop hammering leather soles on to a pair of small boots . |
| 16 | To do both these we have to find support for the idea . |
| 17 | In all other cases we have to find support in the literature , in what other people have done or in our own experience . |
| 18 | The Taillefer brothers were still able to find support within the Angoumois , notably from the lords of Archiac and Chalais . |
| 19 | At the coronation , which took place in Moscow at the end of August 1856 , Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , quizzed gentry representatives from many parts of the empire on the question of emancipation and found sympathy for the idea only among the north-westerners whose feelings on the matter had already been communicated to the tsar . |
| 20 | Do n't tell me you found champagne in the grocery shop ? ’ |
| 21 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 22 | In a landscape renowned for its water sinks and disappearing streams , it 's unusual to find lakes of the size of Semer Water and Malham Tarn . |
| 23 | When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season , the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo . |
| 24 | She had shown Dot before how to find pictures in the clouds . |
| 25 | There is a need too to find solutions to the problems of older residential areas , for these are generally less safe than new ones as a consequence of their land uses , building densities , street patterns and traffic composition . |
| 26 | Conceptualising , therefore , is best understood as the mental effort that people make in understanding their circumstances and attempting to find solutions to the practical problems and frustrations they find on a day-to-day basis . |
| 27 | Such attempts to find solutions in the discourse of everyday were more typical of lawyer C. |
| 28 | Almost the most enjoyable thing of all is Lewis 's ability to find traces of the ‘ old world ’ — beliefs which go back to Isadore of Seville or Macrobius or even as far as Plato — surviving in the pages of Fielding , Johnson or Wordsworth . |
| 29 | Russell said that the police once used either steam-distillation or vacuum extraction to find traces of the common accelerants such as petrol , paraffin , paint thinners and white spirit , that spread fires . |
| 30 | Given his definition of class , Poulantzas has got to find traces of the working class in the political and ideological spheres . |