Example sentences of "find [pron] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Yeo opened his mouth to speak , and found nothing useful to say . |
| 2 | Following his conviction Rashid told journalists that the guilty verdict " was a gift for the Americans " and that " the court had to find me guilty to balance the decision against extraditing me " . |
| 3 | But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms . |
| 4 | He found them both sitting there . |
| 5 | ‘ Cafiero , that rich son of a pig , he came this way , tried to make the peasants rise on his own estates , ’ Davide 's father was talking , ‘ but he found them hard to excite down Acquaqueta way in spite of everything . |
| 6 | I found them comfortable to use and easy to care for . |
| 7 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |
| 8 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 9 | This proposition was also rejected by the revolutionary junta in Madrid , who were therefore obliged to continue their efforts to find someone willing to wear what the English Foreign Minister had described as ‘ that crown of thorns ’ . |
| 10 | Sal continued working as a waitress in a cafe on the Commercial Road , but Charlie knew she could n't wait to find someone willing to marry her — whatever physical shape he was in — just as long as I can sleep in a room of my own , she explained . |
| 11 | To find someone able to do the work look in the LRO ads We recently purchased a 1983 Land Rover County 110 2.25 petrol . |
| 12 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 13 | In Marseilles he was laid up with his familiar fever ; at the Iles d'Hyères , near Nice , he found himself obliged to dance with the proprietress of a rough tavern to avoid embarrassing enquiries about his identity , while as always when the Stuarts set sail , the weather was appalling . |
| 14 | Eventually Richards told Killion to shut up and then found himself obliged to say something else in his place . |
| 15 | Gourlay opened the second set with a double , but two ends later found himself two sets down after a maximum 4 and a 3 gave Corsie the set 7-2 . |
| 16 | But Lewis found himself unable to dredge up the appropriate simile . |
| 17 | Religious hope flickers , as at Magnus Martyr , but the city crowds out the city churches , and going to the apparent sources of the religious life which seemed to hold promise in Lower Thames Street , Eliot found himself unable to sustain hope . |
| 18 | But he found himself unable to say it , especially not to this so very obvious gentlewoman . |
| 19 | When Ivan III manoeuvred to undermine the security of monastic property — before most of his Western peers embarked on the same road — he found himself unable to do so . |
| 20 | We talked to a gatherer who had misjudged the tides and found himself unable to leave the cave for thirty-two days . |
| 21 | The eyes of four respectable women , bright with friendly interest , were looking eagerly towards him and somehow he found himself unable to explain that he had been making a study of extra-marital relations , detached and scientific though this had of course been . |
| 22 | Hendrique found himself unable to hold Graham 's gaze and in his disorientation he turned away , unconsciously easing the pressure on the pad . |
| 23 | In many cases Eric found himself unable to hand over such miserable rewards to contadini who had risked their lives helping prisoners . |
| 24 | Though his compositions won many prizes internationally , Tan says that gradually , he found himself unable to express his real self . |
| 25 | Charlie found himself unable to raise a voice to join his cheering comrades . |
| 26 | Even so , the unions ' power to strike and picket remained substantial ; Tebbit found himself unable to outlaw the closed shop entirely . |
| 27 | The auburn-haired left-winger moved to Aston Villa in August 1922 for £500 but found himself unable to win a regular first team place at Villa Park , because of the brilliant form of Villa 's English International winger , Arthur Dorrell . |
| 28 | Huy found himself unable to know where to begin . |
| 29 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 30 | Like all the teachers , I had a one-year contract renewable at Clive 's discretion , which in my case he found himself unable to exercise . |