Example sentences of "find [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another , senior designer from a German competitor ( not BMW ) stated : ‘ I like the crinkled leather on the doors ’ , but could find nothing about the exterior to praise : ‘ It 's design stagnation ; from some angles it looks like a Lincoln . ’ |
| 2 | I could find nothing in the text to justify such an idea , but my aunt said she knew by ‘ feminine intuition ’ . |
| 3 | We are confident that they will find nothing in the application which is ‘ incompatible with the statutory objective or the general principle of the Act ’ . |
| 4 | You 'll find everyone from the bank manager to your lover ( or potential lover ) is open to a little gentle persuasion . |
| 5 | He took the girls to the swimming pool after midnight , and then persuaded the victim to come with him to a changing room , on the pretext that the manager of the swimming pool might find them at the pool . |
| 6 | Although 14 polytechnics will become universities this autumn under the new Higher Education Act , potential recruits will not find them in the university entrants ' handbook for 1993 . |
| 7 | There are starters , main courses and side dishes and you 'll find them in the freezer cabinet . |
| 8 | So if we just go through these and then you can find them in the word search if you like . |
| 9 | Andrew undresses him slowly , taking each bit of clothing off slowly but then flinging them into a corner of the room ( 'so you wo n't find them in the morning' ) . |
| 10 | You 'll find them in the wine sections , priced from £2.49 to Pounds 2.79 for 200ml . |
| 11 | ‘ Forget about the bullets , we may find them in the morning . ’ |
| 12 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 13 | ‘ He wo n't find me in the forest . |
| 14 | If the Liberal-SDP Alliance were ever in a position to implement electoral reform , a reformed and strengthened second chamber , and legal limits on the sovereignty of Parliament , then we could find ourselves with a constitution which entrenched the middle ground and which offered a democracy of dazzling choice but no decision , and a less-accountable government than that which we currently enjoy within the established constitution . |
| 15 | But if we then turn to the ego — and , still more , the superego — and try to understand the sequence of development there we may find ourselves in the predicament of a person who tried to investigate the musical education of a child who had started learning the piano with grade 2 , then gone on to grade 3 , and finally ended with grade 1 ! |
| 16 | The people who run it try to fix up compatible ages , interests etc and it does n't matter if you ca n't speak the lingo , they will find someone with a knowledge of the English language for you . |
| 17 | If you can find someone with a key to let you in , the interior of the chapel is said to be interestingly decorated , but the one time I was in Harambels I could find cows but no people . |
| 18 | You could find someone outside the family to help you cope , perhaps by suggesting ways to relax or manage stress , or by sorting out practical problems . |
| 19 | Together with the abolition of the Wage Councils and the minimum wage , the working man will find himself at the mercy of the unscrupulous bosses . |
| 20 | RICHIE Richardson will find himself at the centre of another bitter Yorkshire bust-up tonight . |
| 21 | He will find himself at the heart of a Ruritanian ceremonial which makes the House of Lords seem informal . |
| 22 | He 'll find himself on a brain-shrinker 's couch or in the bin if he does n't get a hold of himself . " |
| 23 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |
| 24 | Although what George says is easy to rectify with Lennie , it might not be the case with other people , and if so , George could find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 25 | But Portillo is fast becoming flavour of the month and will increasingly find himself in the public eye . |
| 26 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 27 | There was no-one in reception , but if a stranger entered , he would soon find himself in the company of a gentleman in a blue suit with a friendly smile on his face and a bulge under his coat . |
| 28 | Your client who is having to pay for the action would otherwise find himself in the position of being the loser financially despite an order on liability . |
| 29 | The embattled Premier will now find himself in the dock at Brighton . |
| 30 | If he was n't careful he would find himself in the dungeon — or dead . |