Example sentences of "find [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 2 | To illustrate the conceptual basis of her thinking when arriving at a public relations platform on which to build a campaign for a consumer client , no better example could be found than her approach to the problem of one international manufacturing giant . |
| 3 | The Chaos Warrior has the keys to the chests , and these will be found if his corpse is searched . |
| 4 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 5 | The older children 's bodies were found after their mother Maeve went to wake them at 8.30am on the overnight Swansea-Cork ferry Celtic Pride . |
| 6 | Her body was found when her car was recovered from the water at Stonebench . |
| 7 | Uniform centralization was the administrative pre-condition of all other reform , as the Caroline bureaucrats found when their agrarian programme was blocked by oligarchic municipalities . |
| 8 | He did make the inevitable protest of the recently released prisoner : was he to be hounded wherever he went , just because of the recent trip ‘ abroad ’ , and surely that debt was paid in full and he could be allowed to start again in , of all places , his old home , which he was only visiting in the hope of finding where his parents had moved to ; to lose touch with his dear mother was not to be borne ; he needed to talk with his parents , to explain things to them , and ask for their forgiveness . |
| 9 | There was n't earth behind , but another stone , a bigger one , chalk , and I could n't even find where its edge was . |