Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] find [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 2 | When the last trump sounds and I stand before the Lord our God and am judged I will be found wanting and know not what to do . |
| 3 | The same applies to difficult sounds and pairs of sounds which will be found confusing in learning the language . |
| 4 | He asked my advice and I said she should be found suitable private accommodation . |
| 5 | We believe that no one should be found guilty of a crime unless the statute or other piece of legislation establishing that crime is so clear that he must have known his act was criminal , or would have known if he had made any serious attempt to discover whether it was . |
| 6 | But in the ruts of streams , on lacustrine islets , occasionally along the shores of lakes , and in the clefts of rocks , there may be found stunted specimens of several species of trees . |
| 7 | Council officers have told them they will be found alternative housing if the plan goes ahead . |
| 8 | It may be found useful to a new generation of cooks , professional and amateur . |
| 9 | The jury were directed by the trial judge that they could find him guilty only as actor , whereas the true position was that he could be found guilty either as actor or on the basis of art and part . |
| 10 | ‘ So it might , ’ said Ramses , ‘ if anyone could be found stupid enough to lend to the Khedive . ’ |
| 11 | For testing , it will be found convenient to connect a small 12V bulb ( 2.2W rating ) to the output wires in place of the solenoid valve . |
| 12 | The third part describes the ways in which children acquire the forms of language , and develop their ability to use and understand them , with consideration of what might be found easy or difficult at different stages of development . |