Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some teenage mothers get on fine at the usual antenatal classes , but others , like Sara and her friends , obviously do find it much more helpful to go somewhere with people in a similar situation so they can share experiences and gain a sense of friendship and solidarity . |
| 2 | As I was only 12 it scared me but now I know seeing a land mark just helps find the airstrip . |
| 3 | Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it . |
| 4 | All that is a way of saying that I found , and still do find , the conscious act of sitting down to meditate — in the accepted way of the word — an exceedingly difficult act . |
| 5 | To this day , I still marvel at the fact that , in a country where even the most seasoned and recalcitrant dyke can be made to feel truly perverted in a very short space of time , women found , and still do find , the courage to step into the breach of difference and come out . |
| 6 | An adoption agency with a difference has been set up to help find parents for orphan lambs . |
| 7 | Now I 'm getting older I really do find policemen look younger . |
| 8 | But I really do find it difficult to believe that they are all ‘ business contacts ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I really do find that hard to believe . ’ |
| 10 | I really did find that we sunk to the pits when we started circulating recipes for cheesecake on er poll tax er payers money , that is absolutely ludicrous and we should n't be spending money on that . |
| 11 | I 'm just here to help find them . ’ |
| 12 | Murray Pugh 's mother , father and younger sister travelled to Cheltenham this morning to appeal to the people there to help find Murray 's killer . |
| 13 | What you do not expect to find , you seldom do find . |
| 14 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 15 | I never did find out what the seminar was about ! |
| 16 | Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation . |
| 17 | I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence . |
| 18 | Never did find out what they had against him . ’ |
| 19 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
| 20 | I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 . |
| 21 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 22 | Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge ! |
| 23 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 24 | They never did find the bottom half . |
| 25 | I never did find Higon Cussi . |
| 26 | They never did find Nisodemus again , even though a party of strong-stomached nomes went back much later and searched through the ruts and the mud . |
| 27 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 28 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
| 29 | We never did find his house did we ? |
| 30 | Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen |