Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sard Harker cherishes the vision of the flower-encompassed house for ten years before , in 1897 , he revisits it , to find it empty and shut up , and resolves to forget the distant figure of the girl he has always hoped to find . |
| 2 | The centre has been in financial trouble before , but has always managed to find further sources of funding at times of apparent crisis . |
| 3 | He explained that the district hospital has developed a strong sense of community service , partly because it has always had to find ways of reaching a scattered population . |
| 4 | Whitehall has also had to find office space and officials to staff the new ministries promised by both parties . |
| 5 | During this period the Board has also had to find its feet , build up its staff resources to the planned level and concern itself with the production of some weighty discussion documents . |
| 6 | It is of interest for example that Ruether , as she has increasingly wanted to find models for women in the past , has been forced to look outside the ancient Hebrew and Christian tradition . |
| 7 | Nor is it possible to say what percentage of cases might be attributable to food , because nobody has even attempted to find out . |
| 8 | He talks about the look of plants and has even managed to find some advantages to being blind . |
| 9 | Similarly , English has never chosen to find an equivalent term for avant-garde . |
| 10 | He 'd never ceased to find fascination within its pages , for it was Maybellome 's intention to make an encyclopaedia listing all the flora , fauna , languages , sciences , ideas , moral perspectives — in short , anything that occurred to her — that had found their way from the Fifth Dominion , the Place of the Succulent Rock , through to the other worlds . |
| 11 | She remembered , too , Canon Wheeler 's unexpected appearance at Ian 's attic office when he had perhaps expected to find it empty . |
| 12 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But you must remember it 's only provisional pole and I 've got two young tigers either side of me that will be going much quicker tomorrow so we 've all got to find a bit of speed . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 've just got to find the right plan . |
| 15 | I 've just got to find a record here hang on . |
| 16 | For the first time in her life she felt radiantly satisfied , as though she had somehow managed to find all the answers to every question she had ever asked about herself . |
| 17 | So we 've always got to find somewhere to eat that 's |
| 18 | Oliver was very disappointed ; he had thought about Mr Brownlow so much recently , and had always hoped to find him again . |
| 19 | The State Department had still failed to find anywhere else . |
| 20 | You 've also got to find it ‘ intolerable to live with her ’ . |
| 21 | Where we 've got those conditions great , but we 've also got to find a trade unionism for the rest and the growing majority of employees in Britain . |
| 22 | I had also hoped to find a power steering unit to fit a Series IIA or III . |
| 23 | He had also failed to find Horne . |
| 24 | Self-help in these circumstances is an unqualified virtue , but do ask the library staff to help if you 've repeatedly failed to find the text you 're looking for . |
| 25 | But er the school , I think it was Rudling I , I 've often tried to find it but I I 'm not sure which one i , you know , for |
| 26 | She had sometimes called to find him absent and his mother 's explanation , when she deigned to give one , unconvincing . |
| 27 | The lawyers had told her vaguely that a woman from the village came in to clean — but she had quite expected to find the furniture shrouded in dust-sheets , and a general air of cheerlessness such as is usually associated with empty houses . |
| 28 | Mr Curtis , managing director of Curtis Office Suppliers , and chairman of the Darlington and District Business Club , said he had previously tried to find a more local supplier . |
| 29 | The outfit is supposed to be traditional in some way , but I 've never bothered to find out how . |
| 30 | He had never thought to find himself discussing such a thing with a single young woman , but he had heard of American girls ' frankness , and he supposed that this was a sample of it . |