Example sentences of "be try to find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're trying to find a recipient of a letter Beatrix sent . |
| 3 | three and Q , I do n't know , I 'm trying to find a tap hole stopper , I 've got to find a tap hole stopper somewhere |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you were trying to find a cottage for Marcus , but Irina says you 're not . ’ |
| 5 | I heard from that she and you were trying to find a copy of the Style Sheet for the Quirk volume for . |
| 6 | So they do n't come along and say , please catch me , and if you were trying to if you were trying to find a fox or a badger , what would be the- what would be the difficulty ? |
| 7 | Organiser Neil Storey said ‘ I am trying to find a word that goes beyond disappointed . |
| 8 | And we are trying to find a word which means men , we 're finding the word in the story , which means men who sail in boats |
| 9 | Houston police are trying to find a man who has succeeded in getting teenage girls to pose nude for him by saying they will appear in a music video for NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK . |
| 10 | Gascoigne 's agent Mel Stein confirmed : ‘ We are trying to find a date . |
| 11 | We have signed a letter of intent and we are trying to find a solution to that . |
| 12 | Doctors are trying to find a cure for a four-year-old girl who 's allergic to eating . |
| 13 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 14 | Zborowski had been trying to find a way of flattering the old man ever since the party arrived in Nice . |
| 15 | Branco Babic has been trying to find a manufacturer who 's interested in the possibilities of strawcrete for the past two years . |
| 16 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 17 | Now Dr Mathews , a computer musician from Stanford University in California , is trying to find a way of getting people to take charge of music 's humanity . |
| 18 | Pc Barlow 's present dog , Ben , is due to retire later this year and the officer from Thorpe-le-Soken is trying to find a replacement . |
| 19 | Such a combination would seem to suggest that society as a whole is aware of the problem and is trying to find a solution . |
| 20 | ‘ I was trying to find a friend , ’ Blake explained . |
| 21 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 22 | The other was trying to find a mechanism to sell more. , Another example of the ability to see the wood from the trees can be drawn from the time he was asked to take charge of Esso 's marine operations . |