Example sentences of "find a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terence and his pals — Nick Day , the short one , Stewart Ross , the fat — found a corridor opening in front of them , on the surge . |
| 2 | By the time we found a space to stand in comfort most of his drink had gone with a gulp . |
| 3 | The Doctor found a second to doff his hat . |
| 4 | Drudy and Drudy also found that 22 per cent of their survey group wished to leave the area , although they did not seek to establish the motives , while Dench found a willingness to leave mid-Devon if career prospects were frustrated . |
| 5 | Less than a week after their first meeting at the poetry reading , she found a message waiting for her , asking her to ring Clelia 's number , and she rang , and Clelia invited herself round to tea . |
| 6 | She found a cyke parked out of range of the explosion , and straddled it . |
| 7 | Darren Kerry bought his house for sixty three thousand pounds with two brothers but after losing his job he fell behind with his mortage payments … he begged Citibank , with whom he had the loan to reduce the payment … he even found a buyer prepared to pay sixty three thousand pounds … but with interest he then owed sixty five thousand pounds … and Citibank apparently refused to allow him to sell it … |
| 8 | One day a member of staff found a man smoking in the girls ' dining room . |
| 9 | Under the circumstances then , perhaps it was wisely ordered that I never found a man to form that special relationship . |
| 10 | PS : Blandly found us an excellent man to be captain , and Silver found a man called Arrow to be first officer . |
| 11 | … and found a man watching her , his eyes fixed to her face with blatant sexuality . |
| 12 | So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter . |
| 13 | He found a man keeping geese in his kitchen and a woman with a typewriter in a turret . ’ |
| 14 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 15 | He ran to the back door , found a man lying on the floor and dragged him out . |
| 16 | We came back and found a man lying with a leg blown off , his face totally disfigured and a lot of blood everywhere . ’ |
| 17 | Magistrates heard that an environmental health officer found a fly-strip covered in dead insects hanging near ice lollies when he visited Villa Ices in Union Street , Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | On the same visit , the first since my early childhood , I found a reference written by a local doctor for my mother , who about 1930 applied for a job as a ward maid at the local asylum , confirming that she was clean , strong , honest and intelligent . |
| 19 | After another afternoon 's fishing , he found a way to arrange a meeting with Sylvia later that night , behind the stables . |
| 20 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |
| 21 | She was the last of the Roxborough line , he 'd said , unless she found a way to fertilize one of her girlfriends . |
| 22 | They have settled down , sorted out their personal problems , adjusted their lives to accommodate each other , found a way to cope with the pressure and emerged with a very strong successful partnership . |
| 23 | The process in this case did not reach its logical conclusion because Mr. Thorpe — I commend him on his ingenuity , a quality with which the nation knows he is amply endowed — found a way to secure the necessary care . |
| 24 | Eventually Vuk and Kopitar found a way to get the book published and it appeared in 1818 as a Serbian-Latin-German dictionary . |
| 25 | I confided in him and we worked at it together and I found a way to have an orgasm . |
| 26 | whereas it looks as though , you know this chap , they found a way to make sure there 's no metal in it and now the machine it |
| 27 | Jarvis , coming there to take possession thirty years later , found a rope attached to the bell and its other end wound round the cleat . |
| 28 | It started badly when a woman in the group found a tick burrowed deeply into her leg , needing a painful pull with tweezers to extract it . |
| 29 | and found a dolphin turning at the tide 's hem |
| 30 | We gave her a score of 100 to start with , and deducted 10 per cent of her running total each time we found a word spelt rong . |