Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He did not find learning to pray an easy occupation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The letters to Greeves suggest that he did not find this part of a Christian 's duty very easy ( 'Daily Castration Prevents Master Bation' ) . |
| 8 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 9 | I did not find , however , among my colleagues many who were conceivably poets , heroes , or exceptionally free men in their holidays and spare time … . |
| 10 | She did not find Flora any strain either . |
| 11 | Mosley resigned in May 1930 , when these schemes did not find favour in government circles . |
| 12 | The fact that the major period of growth for the Church was a result of the political conflict with liberal unionism meant that most of those who were attracted to the Church were aware of its high political profile and either positively endorsed it , or at least did not find it offensive . |
| 13 | That defeat effectively extinguished the independence of the Bohemian kingdom which did not find expression again until 1918 in the new state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 14 | I asked whether they did not find it inconvenient , living so near the French border , not to speak French , but they said not . |
| 15 | Yet in competition with them the Bournonville ballets did not find favour with the sophisticated Viennese public . |
| 16 | I did not find it light-hearted at all . |
| 17 | But Laurence Olivier did not find fatherhood easy . |
| 18 | Financial management was now assuming greater importance in the industry and whilst only 8% mentioned this subject it would be surprising if many more did not find difficulty with it . |
| 19 | The family farmers of Speyside , with in-wintered stock to feed daily , did not find the winter period suitable but preferred the late spring/early summer . |
| 20 | In the gelada 's natural habitat the Dunbars did not find an extreme seasonality in food availability , especially since geladas could switch from grass to rhizomes and bulbs as the key dry-season diet . |
| 21 | ( 5 April 1778 ) Mozart evidently did not find this type of work rewarding : |
| 22 | ‘ I did not find it the most co-operative of neighbourhoods , ’ Morton said wryly . |
| 23 | Lenin did not find it necessary to discuss the issue in his elaboration of the party programme in 1895–6 . |
| 24 | While freedom movements in central and eastern Africa were stimulated by these coercive policies , an effective means of ideological diffusion did not lie in the hands of African cultivators nor their leaders , and therefore the analytical lessons to be drawn did not find their way into the international conventional wisdom about conservation . |
| 25 | I looked for him but did not find him . |
| 26 | Even excluding the admittedly ‘ popular ’ works included in what is a random list , many of the volumes I did not find were by authors who were represented by other titles . |
| 27 | The music finally chosen helped greatly in creating a sombre mood , but John did not find it interesting or easy to work with . |
| 28 | And those who said they did not find it a strain expressed themselves for example as follows : |
| 29 | Most said they did not find the actual tasks they performed for the dementia sufferer difficult , but two-thirds found one or more of the symptoms of dementia difficult to cope with , and most described feelings of strain . |
| 30 | But our amateur popularity did not find favour with the commercial stations and there were somewhat ugly rumours coming out of Ottawa . |