Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smells are employed most widely to find food , but they also help many animals and plants to avoid being eaten . |
| 2 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 3 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 4 | So the side was constantly reshuffled , no player remaining in any position long enough to find his form . |
| 5 | ‘ Long enough to find out what we needed . |
| 6 | Supporting her with his right arm , his left hand strayed from her breasts to her thigh , and from there slowly completed the journey to the mouth of the Cave of Sweet Mysteries , lingering long enough to find the little temple of Min and arouse him as she began to gasp for breath , her tongue making passionate sallies into his ear . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not planning to stay long enough to find out — have you see the rain ? |
| 8 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 9 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 10 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 11 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 12 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 13 | We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us . |
| 14 | It is difficult enough now to find any first or second round matches of any consequence in the women 's singles at almost any tournament , especially the Grand Slams . |
| 15 | I 'd have thought he 's going to find it extremely difficult down here to find a job . |
| 16 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 17 | It is not enough to find a woman . |
| 18 | To achieve that abroad , they need not only to find suppliers willing to work in their way , but also to build a commercial relationship in which each is dependent on the other . |
| 19 | He was then able not only to find the green with a nine-iron but be close enough for a tap-in putt for his three . |
| 20 | Even in July or August it is possible not only to find accommodation but to pay very little for it . |
| 21 | Such systems depend on a classified array ; most libraries adopt schemes that enable the reader not only to find " where the science books are kept " but a particular sub-section " where the books on sub-atomic particles are kept " . |
| 22 | The database has been used by one group of learning support pupils who have used the printouts not only to find the books they want but also to organize their projects , using the questions as section headings . |
| 23 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 24 | But what about adding a twist to the puzzle : the task is not merely to find a way out , but to find the shortest route to the way out . ’ |
| 25 | The man returned to his house at Lemington Place at 10.30pm yesterday to find flammable liquid had been poured through his letter box . |
| 26 | A far-southern constellation , not hard to find because it is so compact ; it lies more or less between Achernar and Canopus . |
| 27 | I then tell them a story which they act out : one day the children all set off home only to find that a great big hole has opened up in the playground . |
| 28 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 29 | Those few that escape being eaten form pairs and go off together to find a nest site in a crevice in the ground or a crack in a tree . |
| 30 | He was surprised that he 'd had no word from that gentleman , and even more so to find that Theda had not either . |