Example sentences of "[pron] find some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 2 | I found some cotton stuff that would do nicely to replace the sacking at our windows , and a pair of linen sheets . |
| 3 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 4 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 5 | Tight-eyed against the light , I found some finger holds at the edge of reach and slid , sackless for the second time , onto the white slab . |
| 6 | But I found some barbecue recipes and all that that 'd be good . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd got the fire to go — I found some coal and stuff outside — and then the post came , and brought a letter for me — nothing important — which I tried to burn . |
| 8 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 9 | There 's fresh water , and I found some fishing tackle , so with a bit of luck we could be eating in style tonight . ’ |
| 10 | I find some difficulty in understanding the argument that 's coming from Leeds City Council , bearing in mind the emphasis you placed last week . |
| 11 | And this is fortunate , because like most speakers , I find some dictionary definitions remote from my own usage . |
| 12 | The few studies which found some relationship had to resort to extensive and differing lag structures , using interest rates which hardly reflected the rates most companies have to pay for borrowing . |
| 13 | Indeed its members often denied that they belonged to any ‘ group ’ ; they were , they said , primarily friends , with certain family connections , who found some definition ( and their group name ) from the district of London where a number of them lived . |
| 14 | I hope you found some gold ! |
| 15 | She found some solace in her love of dancing inviting the West Heath school pianist , the late Lily Snipp and Wendy Mitchell , her dance teacher , to Buckingham Palace to give her private lessons . |
| 16 | It seems clear that she found some difficulty in arriving at an assessment of her feelings in relation to me . |
| 17 | Then you will go round those establishments , with one of the likenesses , until you find some girl who recognizes it . ’ |
| 18 | You find some tape in a kitchen drawer and go back to the front hall , turning him round so that you 're between him and the door . |
| 19 | Another TV graduate was Ken Loach , whose UA-financed Kes ( 1969 ) , about a deprived schoolboy who finds some meaning to his life by befriending a kestrel , is a remarkable indicator of how far a Hollywood studio could be persuaded to go in looking for sellable films after the pop bubble had collapsed . |
| 20 | Although we found some firewood in the woods behind the hut , it was bitterly cold . |
| 21 | We found some business cards in his hotel room . ’ |
| 22 | If we found some human remains it would be an extraordinarily important site . |
| 23 | We found some hint of this in Chapter 3 when we noted ( p. 28 ) that not all observable quantities could be measured simultaneously . |
| 24 | Indeed the hard and fast distinction between firms becomes very blurred when we find some supplier companies located within the plant of the parent firm , when the smaller company is managed by ex employees of the larger one or when the bulk of the small firm machinery is handed down in second-hand sales from their principal buyer . |
| 25 | In the publishing world as a whole , periodicals concerned with the family become more and more specialized : quite apart from the dozens of magazines addressed to women generally , we find some catering for the interests of parents in particular , some especially for the ‘ mother to-be ’ , and others for parents of individual age-groups or of children with special characteristics or handicaps . |
| 26 | Here again we find some confusion over dates and details : some biographers erroneously believed that he came North because of ill-health . |
| 27 | It really does seem to matter for epistemology that we find some reply to the sceptic . |
| 28 | Can we find some reason why these legislators should choose a conventionalist system of adjudication ? |
| 29 | McCullough ‘ Then at noon on the 10th , they found some activity on the roof of the meteorological station ; this was unusual , and they knew that something had gone wrong … |
| 30 | In late 1984 Feshaie and a friend left home and simply walked until they found some EPLF fighters . |