Example sentences of "[vb past] n't find " in BNC.
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| 31 | They did n't find my husband at home but I was there and they beat me terribly . |
| 32 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 33 | She did n't exactly like him , either , but he had a kind of integrity that you did n't find in many people — not even in Belle , really , because Belle 's attitude , although always straightforward , varied according to what she thought about you . |
| 34 | ‘ You did n't find nothing , that 's for sure . |
| 35 | They came in search of paradise … but they did n't find it . |
| 36 | So erm I did n't find out anything about the weddings . |
| 37 | We climbed some trees looking for nests but did n't find any . |
| 38 | They all thought me secure , even if they did n't find Cliff Top exactly homey . |
| 39 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 40 | It was Helen who broke the rhythm of things ; she delved in her bag , searching for her house keys , and when she did n't find them , stopped to search more carefully . |
| 41 | Albert asked him once if he did n't find it agonizingly painful on the calves , especially in the case of an attempt to stop , but the child obviously did n't know what his father was talking about . |
| 42 | There was no sign of one , but Ace did discover a locked section of one case which , upon being broken open , proved to contain the sort of books which one certainly did n't find in the local W H Smiths . |
| 43 | Well I certainly did n't find it any more dangerous living in the flats , than I would have found living in . |
| 44 | After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work . |
| 45 | Or perhaps she simply did n't find them all that amusing . |
| 46 | ‘ We did n't find it at Ward 's house . ’ |
| 47 | She did n't find anyone very admirable , had reservations about people who devoted their lives to the care of the sick , and she did n't go ‘ Aah ’ over babies and brides or the Princess of Wales . |
| 48 | She did n't find it easy ; she was n't a great reader . |
| 49 | ‘ No , Alex , we did n't find Ace or Christine . |
| 50 | ‘ Well , I did n't find her . |
| 51 | The letters took ages but somehow Rebecca did n't find it so difficult this time . |
| 52 | Mum and Dad did n't find out about Flupper and us for more than a week . |
| 53 | He recognized that she was trying to look seductive , and , while he did n't find her attractive ( rather the reverse ) , he was intrigued by the sudden change in her behaviour . |
| 54 | Charles did n't find many sympathetic characters among the cast . |
| 55 | I did n't find it , but instead I found Maurin . |
| 56 | I did n't find blood and I do n't believe he did . ’ |
| 57 | He tried to help her : ‘ They did n't find much ; only a couple of volumes of somebody 's journal — ’ |
| 58 | His wife Betty was n't taken by the cake at all ; she wrote and told me that she did n't find the flavour to her taste . |
| 59 | Eva did n't find it a problem once she had made the initial adjustment . |
| 60 | " I did n't find out her name , " Grout waved one hand dismissively , " Well you did n't get very far with her either , did you ? |