Example sentences of "we had find " in BNC.

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1 We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in .
2 I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite .
3 After a short while we could n't stand it any longer ; we had to find out what was going on .
4 After Peter 's death in 1982 , we had to find a home for our private collection of 20,000 children 's books and comics .
5 ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them !
6 Having dealt successfully with the dreaded cupboard under the stairs , we had to find another situation for Sylvia to cope with .
7 The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) .
8 Unfortunately , television studios are strangely designed and dressing-rooms are often miles away from the studio , so we had to find a place where she and her entourage could relax in comfort without the need to climb stairs .
9 We had to find six words out of a newspaper .
10 The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task .
11 We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release .
12 Because we had to find a nurse to ask
13 They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug .
14 This meant that we had to find somewhere I could manage on my own and that was centrally located , because I could not walk far .
15 We had to find other diversions .
16 We had to find seven living animals on Brown Owl 's farm .
17 We would have liked to rebuild it but then we had to find places for the people to go and being a narrow valley it , most of the housing was put at the end of the town .
18 First we had to find a new propeller and this was delivered by Sam , an engineer from Technical Branch , who made a record marathon run in his tiny van from Southampton to join us at Oban .
19 Calling out our imaginary names we had to find each other .
20 Such a short time she was in my arms and then we had to find a hole in the earth to place her ; a piece of stone to mark her passing .
21 Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving .
22 We had to find out exactly where an object was stored , or on show , and record that information .
23 specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree .
24 still got Bill as previously arranged but we had to find somebody else for Jack .
25 He said : ‘ It was a struggle at first , because when we took over , we discovered that most of the team had left , so we had to find players quickly .
26 We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick .
27 Accommodation , and the petrol all we had to find was
28 But as soon as we had found our voice again , we were once more interrupted by visits from Berlin .
29 Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes .
30 We had found nothing until Oscar showed us the way . ’
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