Example sentences of "find [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 2 | Just for a second longer she hovered uncertainly in the doorway , fighting against the urge to beg him to find someone else to teach him before she spun round and ran from the room . |
| 3 | If he did want to mount an exhibition of his work — and she was starting to believe that that too had been a lie , just part of some overall strategy — then he 'd have to find someone else to organise it . |
| 4 | And with that he wanders off , to find somebody else to wind up . |
| 5 | She promised to find something else to sell me , and said that she would give me a ring . |
| 6 | Nor , however , did you see the river , and Willis would have to find something else to fill the great gap which would be left in his life when it was no longer possible to see the river traffic , passing and repassing . |
| 7 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 8 | As part of this , MI5 has made a bid to adopt a more proactive intelligence-gathering role in dealing with the IRA ( now the cold war is over , it has to find something else to do ) . |
| 9 | so you 've got to find something else to do . |
| 10 | When the classic car market collapsed , he had to find something else to do with the vehicles awaiting restoration : |
| 11 | When the classic car market collapsed , he had to find something else to do with the vehicles awaiting restoration : |
| 12 | ‘ Hopefully tomorrow , unless you manage to find something else to complain about in our department . ’ |
| 13 | We 're out to pass you really , but we we wo n't unless it 's worth it , but erm the emphasis is on trying to find something there to give a mark to sort of thing rather than the other way around . |
| 14 | I found it best to suspend the tube containing the eggs as soon as the embryo could be seen inside . |
| 15 | As it turned out , parents found it best to ask Olwyn which one of the four rewards on the menu she preferred on any successful night . |
| 16 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 17 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 18 | ‘ Kathleen may have found me somewhere to live . ’ |
| 19 | But of course they had n't found me anywhere to live . |
| 20 | ‘ Find someone else to skipper the charter , ’ I said . |
| 21 | Go and find someone else to feed your ego , because I 've had enough of dealing with men who need to bully women to feel good ! ’ |
| 22 | Find someone else to share with you ? ’ |
| 23 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 24 | You might mean well , but find someone else to experiment on ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 26 | The other one could not play on alone or find somebody else to play , and if the games could not be played and ended , the riddle could not be answered . |
| 27 | Find you somewhere to stay , somewhere you could lick your wounds in private ; somewhere we could keep an eye , so to speak , make sure you were all right . ’ |
| 28 | And , you know he said I 'm sure Paddy Ashdown would think that you could of found something else to use the other |
| 29 | He watches the boxing and I find something else to do . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll stop , take myself out of tennis and find something else to do with my life . |