Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you 'd better find it . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better find another garage , ’ he said rather hopelessly . |
| 3 | They 're still a bit wobbly , you know , and when the bombing got rough I thought I 'd better find us all somewhere to go . |
| 4 | ‘ I think we 'd better find Angalo quickly , then , ’ said Gurder . |
| 5 | You 'd better find some oil for your lamp … |
| 6 | Well I No I thought I 'd better find it cos otherwise I 'd walk off without it and then you 'd get my pen , and I |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better find Stephen — unless you want to see some fireworks , that is ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps we 'd better find out about the woman . |
| 9 | You 'd better find a plaster for that thumb or it might start bleeding again . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd better find out what the fuck 's happening . |
| 11 | ‘ Then they 'd better find his body . ’ |
| 12 | Wycliffe said : ‘ We 'd better find out . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'd better find the boats for Venice , ’ she sighed , resigned to the fact that no one had come to meet her . |
| 14 | I 'd better find Rob . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd better find a builder , then , and ask him to take a look . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Now that you 've lost him , you 'd better find him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better find them , then . ’ |
| 18 | Maybe we 'd better find out . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe we 'd better find out just how much of a romantic you are , Dr Blake . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I think you 'd better find rather more time that that , ’ he returned coolly . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you 'd better find some way of getting over it , my girl — you wo n't be managing the club forever . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I 'd best find a master-mason . |
| 23 | All the same , John did soon find himself dancing with June Brae , as one of her partners in Assembly Ball , a ballet by Andrée Howard to Bizet 's Symphony in C , when he too joined Sadler 's Wells Opera-Ballet . |
| 24 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 25 | Multiple regression analysis suggests that readers did not find the highbrow press significantly more useful than the lowbrow press for any purpose : reading a highbrow paper had no influence in the multiple regressions for newspaper ‘ usefulness ’ ( Table 6.10 ) . |
| 26 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
| 27 | He did not find learning to pray an easy occupation . |
| 28 | Likewise , Maxse turned on Bonar Law when he ditched the ‘ food taxes ’ from the tariff programme , and again did not find himself alone in voicing criticism of the new Tory leader . |
| 29 | Phoebe could accept that , it was how grandmothers were meant to be , but when she turned to her friends , looking for guidance and inspiration , she did not find it . |
| 30 | The letters to Greeves suggest that he did not find this part of a Christian 's duty very easy ( 'Daily Castration Prevents Master Bation' ) . |