Example sentences of "finds [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'll have to take me as she finds me . |
| 2 | ‘ Behold , thou hast driven me this day away from the ground ; and from thy face I shall be hidden ; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth and whoever finds me will slay me . ’ |
| 3 | Epictetus said , ‘ This is what I wish to be engaged in when death finds me , so that I may be able to say to God , ‘ Have I in any respect transgressed Thy commands ? |
| 4 | If he finds me at it again he 'll be convinced I 'm on the slippery slope . ’ |
| 5 | The Lord has given me a heart for the Filipino people , although my work here finds me alongside so many other people . |
| 6 | I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel . |
| 7 | I do n't think she finds me much use . |
| 8 | When I am not on tour , the Lyceum finds me . |
| 9 | If he finds me again , ’ said Raffaella at last , her greenish eyes dilated in apparently genuine fear , ‘ he will try again to kill me . |
| 10 | Consequently , the request to define my present practice finds me still searching out what it is . |
| 11 | ‘ If she finds me with you she 'll have my eyes for marbles . ’ |
| 12 | Or is he to show how difficult he finds them ? |
| 13 | Of the rumours , he said , ‘ Diana finds them very hurtful because they are not true . ’ |
| 14 | Ask them why this is and they will reply that should they die during the night they do not want the person who finds them to feel they were dirty or slovenly . |
| 15 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : The concurrence of atoms Andrew Roberts looks at the history of political pacts in Britain and finds them disliked , short-lived — and heartening for the Tories |
| 16 | The 1785 census finds them there , two males and four females in a house owned by Mr. Muir . |
| 17 | the complexity of company records , which are not only subject to mysterious , ( but relief-bringing ) disappearances down the corporation vortex , but when occasionally discovered are often so specialized and riddled with technical jargon that the average jurist finds them unintelligible — naturally corporate lawyers render them intelligible in ways which favour their clients ; |
| 18 | But their recording finds them in less than top form , and Solti sometimes leads them astray . |
| 19 | The Profitboss finds them , recruits them . |
| 20 | She is insisting that Gerry finds them a ‘ love nest ’ a safe distance from his wife . |
| 21 | Although Sheila finds them a handful and is known to shout at them , she has always sought appropriate help . |
| 22 | Yes , he finds them in the trash . |
| 23 | By the time somebody finds them there 'll be nothing to link us to the killings . ’ |
| 24 | He finds them very difficult to follow . |
| 25 | He makes two points : one , that they are as numerous proportionately in Edinburgh as in London , but in Scottish towns more plentiful than in comparable English locations ; and two , on the whole he finds them more quiet , and modest . |
| 26 | ‘ En Tact ’ , their new LP , finds them at the cutting edge of techno pop , making a chromium dance sound that is as distant from Syd Barrett as it is from ‘ Love Ca n't Turn Around ’ . |
| 27 | Thus the Englishman , familiar with his Rhaetian sediments at the top of the Trias , can not but be astounded when he reads of the Rhaetian deposits of Thailand and finds them described as black pyritous shales with Rhaetavicula contorta , resting on red marls and sandstones , with evaporites , just like those of the Severn cliffs . |
| 28 | If the distributor 's buyer opens them up and finds them not to comply with a condition in his contract he may reject them . |
| 29 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 30 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |