Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] find " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Partnerships did not find themselves suddenly in receipt of substantial resources deflected from other local-authority budgets . |
| 32 | How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ? |
| 33 | More importantly , I did not find the sections on taxonomy and evolution wholly satisfactory . |
| 34 | But they did not find it in the hypothalamus . |
| 35 | They did not find oil and gas , merely thick sedimentary areas that could indicate their presence . |
| 36 | Although Frank obtained a first-class diploma from the College , he did not find an opening in farming and his thoughts turned once more to medicine for which his experiences at College led him to think he had an aptitude . |
| 37 | However , I did not find the professional ambience all that conducive , but I knew I had to do something with my voice . |
| 38 | ‘ I do n't , ’ he replied sternly , ‘ and I did not find the incident last night entertaining or acceptable ! ’ |
| 39 | As one of Rodin 's most celebrated works , The Kiss did not find favour with public opinion in the USA in the 1880s , which decided that the nude marble sculpture was far too hot for public viewing and had it confined to a special room . |
| 40 | She did not find it too difficult to go into a small shop — say , the local newsagent or the greengrocer at the corner of the street — as she was never too far from the window or the door . |
| 41 | And by the way , Steven , I did not find your views about Pakistanis very humorous . |
| 42 | FRS did not find any clear split between men and women . |
| 43 | After leaving the potion laboratory , she soon discovered that Mildred was not in her room and set off to look all over the school where , of course , she did not find the missing pupil . |
| 44 | Würstchen did not find peaceful slumber easy to attain at Death Bivouac . |
| 45 | In 1985 Tipperary County Manager John McGinley told a Magill reporter that the County Council did not find out about the lake until after this five-year period had elapsed . |
| 46 | I did not find out how much she sold the garments for because she left me standing outside , but she always looked pleased when she emerged from these visits . |
| 47 | They did not find the canteen , nor any building like it , nor any doorway that even vaguely resembled the one through which they had left . |
| 48 | He did not find the woman 's endearment term endearing . |
| 49 | I managed the skirt and made a start on the top , I did not find it easy with holding , four colours to change and the pattern to cope with . |
| 50 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 51 | Women were brought aboard the ships , too — but the crews , despite so many months away from female company , did not find much sexually attractive about them . |
| 52 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 53 | Our study did not find any evidence of widespread dissatisfaction among older workers with either their employment or their employer prior to plant closure . |
| 54 | By contrast , Britain did not find much support across the OEEC for its proposal to exclude agriculture from the free trade area . |
| 55 | He could not see why Anna did not find her dull . |
| 56 | I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code . |
| 57 | The Melbourne Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group did not find a difference in urinary albumin excretion between nifedipine and perindopril in a one year randomised study including 53 patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes with or without hypertension . |
| 58 | Fragmentation and excessive pace were also found to be important variables bearing on job satisfaction , with many workers , who did not find their work monotonous , stating that it did not absorb their full attention or that they found the pace of it too fast . |
| 59 | The presiding judge did not find this explanation acceptable and ordered the payment to be made within two days . |
| 60 | The increasing friction between Braun and the City Council came to a head last month when proposals for a large sculpture garden , which was to be financed completely by the Overholland Foundation , again did not find the support from the City Council that Braun was hoping for . |