Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if the Secretary of the Cabinet would go into the box if I were found outside the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 2 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 3 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 4 | I was found wandering by Mr Ozzy Dunk , a salesman for Golden Touch Sunbed Centres . |
| 5 | I was found by Chris sitting not ten yards from Big Tree . |
| 6 | I was always on my guard , always playing the ‘ macho ’ role but always worried sick in case I was found out . |
| 7 | A friendly wave , before we go , to a most amusing Robert Austin as the earthy , peevish servant , who busts out , at the self-dramatising Laurel , ‘ I was found in a field . |
| 8 | I was found Not Guilty . |
| 9 | I was found asleep under a hedge , a partly sampled bottle still clutched protectively in my hands . |
| 10 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 11 | So now I shall never know , because no one would have thought about twins when I was found . |
| 12 | I soon forgot about the heavy object as I was finding it very difficult to keep awake . |
| 13 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 14 | I was finding this academic discussion unbearable . |
| 15 | Although unladen with any climbing gear — even the daysack was being carried by Singi — I was finding it a hard struggle to make upward progress in the thin , cold air ; surprisingly more so than on Mera Peak when ice-axe , crampons and heavy climbing boots had been used . |
| 16 | I was finding him unreachable — except in bed . |
| 17 | It seemed to be essential to her sense of identity , but I was finding it wearisome . |
| 18 | The area suggested that there could be earlier finds but I was not too disappointed with what I was finding . |
| 19 | I was finding out more and more about my quarry 's life . |
| 20 | I did not know then what I was to find out later-that I myself was capable of a drastic re-ordering of the system . |
| 21 | MAY I take this opportunity to say how relieved I was to find that the August 1992 issue of your splendid magazine was largely free of the indefatigable hostility directed towards rugby league football by its immediate predecessor ? |
| 22 | This was an example of Highland hospitality I was to find repeated often . |
| 23 | In our history lecture I grasped only the most basic nature of this ‘ wunderkinder ’ warrior creed , but it was something which I was to find permeating the Legion at every level . |
| 24 | Perhaps more significantly I was to find out that many Heads and teachers alike believed in the importance of creative experience for children , and so the way schools had developed was genuine , well founded and not a half-baked ill-digested educational " gimmick " . |
| 25 | Later I was to find this sort of coincidence recurring . |
| 26 | The carp and pike , which were found locally , were kitted out with lavish trimmings and served on the Sabbath and at festivals . |
| 27 | Includes remains of some 42 skeletons which were found in the caves . |
| 28 | It is believed that these clothes have been taken to Malta for comparison with items purchased there which were found in the suitcase containing the bomb . |
| 29 | They identified a variety of factors which were found to be held in common by a number of American companies recognised as meeting the criteria for excellence . |
| 30 | A very interesting association appears to exist between cutting and eating disorders , which were found in 15 ( 65 per cent ) out of 23 cutters studied by Rosenthal et al. ( 1972 ) , and in 18 ( 75 per cent ) out of 24 patients reported by Simpson ( 1975 ) . |