Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] find [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I PERSONALLY find the orang-utan to be the most appealing of the great apes : it is magnificent in its tropical-forest home , and very entertaining in captivity . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday . |
| 3 | He seemed so attentive , so clued in to my every word , that I suddenly found the confidence to go on . |
| 4 | Did he need a bit of help with his I mean a lot of them did made them that sort of I just found a lot of was so so behind and so |
| 5 | I just found the Boss Mangan and the Randall Utterword so effortfully frantic I wanted to avert my gaze . |
| 6 | But , when I finally found a nurse , I could n't remember where Gabrielle 's room was . |
| 7 | When I became a freelance writer in 1989 , I finally found a career which could accommodate wanderlust . |
| 8 | Even the fact that I finally found a trickle of scummy water , which let me rinse some of the filth from my boots , did nothing to lift my spirits . |
| 9 | He sent me a letter saying how concerned he was and I finally found the courage to go back , but it was quite a while before I 'd open up to him again . |
| 10 | But as I say every year er if I ever find an application where you need this sort of speed I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 11 | It has a K-type spectrum , but I always find the colour less pronounced than with most bright K-stars , though binoculars show it to be decidedly ‘ off-white ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The commercial aspects are very good , of course — though I still find the teaching and research spin-offs the most exciting part of it all , ’ says Dr Jones . |
| 15 | I still find the ability of television to enter the minds of millions a remarkable thing . |
| 16 | ‘ And I still find the idea of you wanting me to do it … unsettling . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 18 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 19 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 20 | I still found the argument extraordinary , but I also had to take into account the fact that if Nigel retained this stance then the committee meeting would have to be postponed and the whole exercise would get off to a terrible start . |
| 21 | But in the end someone usually found a barrel , and scrubbed it , and poured in the raisins and the sugar and the water . |
| 22 | I also find the toe box a bit low — something which will not suit everyone . |
| 23 | I also found an envelope lying around in the bathroom the other day with a list of numbers on the back , and when I asked her about it , she took it silently out of my hand . |
| 24 | I also found the work to be a lot more precise and everyone put that little bit of extra effort into their work . |
| 25 | I also found the birdwatching a bit frustrating at first — there was so much vegetation , and so many places for birds to hide . |
| 26 | I also found the cut of the shoulder harness particularly comfortable — important when there 's no hip belt to take the strain . |
| 27 | When I originally found the frame I thought how pretty it would look if the green of the surround was carried through to the mount and the colour of the picture . |
| 28 | In some of these early Sonatas I even find the fortepiano to be of advantage , particularly in the first movement of Op. 7 where quick passages should come down like hail : the action is lighter , and the incisiveness of fast forte notes much bigger . |
| 29 | The weather being too boisterous to admit of a boat being lowered , I endeavoured to capture the bird with a hook and line , and the ordinary sea-hooks being too large for the purpose , I was in the act of selecting a hook from my stock of salmon-flies , when a sudden gust of wind blew my hooks , and a piece of parchment ten inches long by six inches wide on which they were lying , overboard into the sea , and I was obliged to give up the attempt for that day ; on the next I succeeded in capturing the bird with a hook baited with fat , and the reader may judge of my surprise when on opening the stomach I there found the piece of parchment , so completely uninjured that it was dried and again restored to its original use. , |
| 30 | In the many visits I paid in the course of promoting these activities I again found the kind of awareness of what was new in literature in places I had least expected ; and when in the autumn of that year The Idea of a Christian Society was published , it was much more successful than Eliot hoped . |