Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 2 | The area has encouraged entrepreneurs and investors since the late 1930s when engineering professor , Frederick Terman , the acknowledged ‘ father of Silicon Valley ’ , attracted engineers and scientists from the east and helped them find money for their work . |
| 3 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 4 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 5 | The children helped him find a better cure , too . |
| 6 | It helped him find his long-lost daughter . |
| 7 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 8 | I had no trouble in interpreting this , nor did I find the sequence strange , despite the fact that there are no overt formal links of the kind discussed in 2 . |
| 9 | I had no trouble in interpreting this , nor did I find the sequence strange , despite the fact that there are no overt formal links of the kind discussed in 2 . |
| 10 | In fact , so contemptible did I find his dismissal of my judgement as to what constitutes talent on the football field , that I flatly refused the £200,000 fee they were willing to pay for Colin Webley and let the useless git go on a free transfer ! |
| 11 | And what did I find ? |
| 12 | Gathering information became part of the routine and only very occasionally did I find it impossible to do . |
| 13 | Oh well , there goes another theory for what did I find in one of my favourite swims but a handful of zander in the four to six pound weight range . |
| 14 | And the way he did what he just did I find most discouraging . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ How did ye find me ? ’ |
| 16 | Did somebody find them ? ’ |
| 17 | Did you find it easy to take direction from someone whom you did n't know ? |
| 18 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 19 | ‘ Where did you find it ? ’ |
| 20 | Just over a year later , at a ‘ Career Appraisal Interview ’ with the chief constable , I was asked : ‘ tell me , how did you find the law course at the polytechnic ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Did you find your horse well-behaved ? |
| 22 | ‘ And what did you find out ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Did you find out anything about Werner ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And what did you find out ? |
| 25 | She turned to Agnes : ‘ Did you find him modest ? |
| 26 | AND HOW MANY BRONZED LATIN LOVERS DID YOU FIND , EH ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Where did you find that ? ’ he whispered . |
| 28 | ‘ So — how did you find out ? ’ she said to Doyle , without turning her head . |
| 29 | ‘ What did you find ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Where did you find the food ? ’ asked Endill . |