Example sentences of "always find " in BNC.
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| 1 | In union negotiations , for example , I always found that if you had a heart to heart with the opposition , the single leader , you could probably gain something . |
| 2 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 3 | I always found the idea of people who were very hard to please , including journalists who were very critical — I always found they were almost always right when they found something praiseworthy . |
| 4 | I always found the idea of people who were very hard to please , including journalists who were very critical — I always found they were almost always right when they found something praiseworthy . |
| 5 | Asked for her reaction , Margaret Thatcher gave vent to her feelings about the operation and also , I suspect , about what she saw as ever critical broadcasters who always found something to carp about even after an undoubted success . |
| 6 | Why was it that she always found herself attracted to older men ? |
| 7 | ( She always found and inspected till receipts from the bottom of his carrier bags . ) |
| 8 | I always found this kind of slick psychoanalytic one-upmanship irritating , but I never attempted to defend myself , because I am bored by argument and discussion of any kind . |
| 9 | Engels always found it difficult to control the wild swings of his enthusiasms . |
| 10 | Whenever Lachlan sought Marion , he always found both of them , close as praying hands , murmuring together , and raising their heads to smile sweetly at his frustration . |
| 11 | But , as he always found room in his life for north Oxfordshire and his family , he also enjoyed setting down some of his local preoccupations and irritations . |
| 12 | We always found an excuse to linger round the milking parlour , warmed by the steaming animals ; watching in admiration as one of the ladies coaxed milk from pink teats into a foaming bucket . |
| 13 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |
| 14 | There could be no early start : the lads ' co-operation was needed and we always found it difficult to agree on rules . |
| 15 | We had also heard frightening stories about the teachers but with one exception I always found them very fair . |
| 16 | He always found room for a long line of sweet peas ; it gave him immense pleasure to pick an armful of these , take them home , present them to Mum and fill the house with their glorious scent . |
| 17 | I always found the night duties a great strain , and often had to walk up and down outside to clear my head with some fresh air . |
| 18 | She always found herself adopting this haughty attitude when entering big houses or hotels of above average splendour . |
| 19 | When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself . |
| 20 | On Saturday mornings , doing the shopping in Petersfield , we always found time to go into Woolworth to look at their latest toys . |
| 21 | They always found me no matter where I hid . |
| 22 | Richard records that he always found the advice , ‘ You 'll understand when you are grown up ’ really infuriating . |
| 23 | Not that Paracelsus always found the right ones : One wonders how many unfortunates owed their demise to his prescription of mercury to clarify the spleen . |
| 24 | Apparently , she had been taken in by the Madam who ran the house , a woman called Bella Cohen , who adopted her almost as her daughter , by personally , I always found it hard to believe myself . " |
| 25 | The juniors were very earnest and keen cricketers and I always found umpiring a ticklish business as I do not know the rules . |
| 26 | Preston always found the story deeply distressing , but the twins seemed to like it . |
| 27 | She always found out . |
| 28 | Such pictures she always found calming to her nerves and she had no need of the large net which was hung at the top of the staircase , to catch those distracted adolescents who attempted suicide in the converted country house where she received her education . |
| 29 | She always found the supper she cooked for the children irresistible and when she gave them bacon and baked beans she would swoop down on their plates like a vulture on a battlefield . |
| 30 | They always found it natural in government . |