Example sentences of "had find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the Government press could rely on a government subvention to support it for political or educational ends , private newspapers had to find private capital . |
| 2 | One of the buildings totally flattened was the new home of the deaf in the town , so for the second time within the space of one year , the deaf in Exeter had to find new club premises . |
| 3 | They would be free from slavery , from work they were unsuited to do , but they lost a way of life , they had to look after their children for longer , they had to find other work to keep the family fed , clothed , rent paid etc . |
| 4 | We had to find other diversions . |
| 5 | They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi . |
| 6 | They often needed money above and beyond their budget ( though sometimes not much ) — because usually their budget was for the routine things they were doing , and if they wanted to do something novel , they had to find extra funds . |
| 7 | However , it was obvious that if they wished to attack moored shipping , they had to find suitable boats from which to do so . |
| 8 | Some suggested that some of the military and political leadership had found unacceptable Chadli 's readiness to negotiate with FIS leaders — a position in which he apparently had the support of Abdelhamid Mehri , secretary-general of the FLN . |
| 9 | This had found partial expression as early as 1589 when the government had persuaded Constantinople to raise the Metropolitan of Moscow to patriarchal status in order to strengthen Orthodoxy 's defences . |
| 10 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 11 | He understood what she meant about Slorne because as the days and weeks had grown into months he had found great comfort in her strange and silent presence . |
| 12 | Pauline was a few years older than Chris , who was 31 , but they had found mutual support and love , and together created the opportunity to live on their own . |
| 13 | But once you had found mutual ground for trust , responded to his dry humour or enjoyed his sometimes wicked pranks , the friendship could become deep and permanent . |
| 14 | The FAA had found persistent violations of security regulations by Pan Am not only before Lockerbie , but even after the disaster . |
| 15 | The evidence of hearths over tessellated pavements and trampled black earth accumulated over floors has often been interpreted as ‘ squatter occupation ’ , as if casual wanderers had found temporary refuge in the ruins of the buildings . |
| 16 | People had found various places to sit while they had their food , and there they stayed once they had eaten , like Sara 's companions , drowsy with sun and exercise and air and food . |
| 17 | Greenpeace said that its members had found rusty drums — labelled " industrial goods for further use " — at a barracks in Rovno , Ukraine , containing liquid mercury , old paints made with heavy metals , pure DDT , hydrogen cyanide and other hazardous chemicals . |
| 18 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 19 | The RRA monitored the dumping operation , however , and on April Fools Day 1980 Michael Linehan of the RRA announced that he had found exposed sacks of asbestos waste at the Barnahely dump . |
| 20 | Loretta wondered if the police had found other evidence about which Tracey had not been told . |
| 21 | She had spent the night in hospital and staff had found other food in the kitchen had been laced with the poison . |
| 22 | Bartram had insisted that this differed from the candleberry , Myrica cerifera , while Miller had found other authors ranging it with the Liquidambar , ‘ so I shall be much obliged to you , if you can send me a perfect specimen , that I may determine its proper genus . ’ |
| 23 | The library committee had found other staff very responsive to such ideas and a staff workshop had been planned , although industrial action had prevented it taking place . |
| 24 | The celebrities had found other ways to occupy their Friday evenings . |
| 25 | But , he said , last week the beleaguered Mr Major had found new friends in the SNP — which had for weeks been urging all-party opposition talks on the government of Scotland , but had been in secret negotiations with a Tory government . |
| 26 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
| 27 | When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses . |
| 28 | Within three years over one third had found new owners or uses |
| 29 | She said Canine Rescue re-homed 130 dogs last year and in the past week had found new homes for five dogs . |
| 30 | If we had found good reason to say no , to the first question , there are implications for how we say no to the second question . |