Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to be the subject of a proper report er by the er audit commission , but the district auditor and if they find that there has been er er wrong doing , if they find that there has been any er wilful neglect or if they find there has been any er unacceptable er maladministration then I will certainly join with the er the Secretary of State in condemning that . |
| 2 | Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person . |
| 3 | His journey , John assumed , was either because of genuine business , or because he found it trying to wait in the capital . |
| 4 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 5 | ‘ The principle is that once we find we can do something that makes us feel good , we repeat it , ’ he explains . |
| 6 | It is no accident that people in AI rarely draw flow-charts , and it is a cliché of programming in LISP that if one finds oneself drawing a flow-chart , one has not understood how LISP works . |
| 7 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 8 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 9 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 10 | She made up her mind that if she found herself frequently lying sleepless and agitated , then Memet should , as far as she was concerned , be cast into outer darkness . |
| 11 | ‘ Madam , I must tell you , ’ I replied , ‘ that since he found me , my master has used me as an easy way of making money for himself . |
| 12 | And that they found it easier when they that that English was English and Orcadian was Orcadian . |
| 13 | If we look at it another way , we can suggest that many physics students feel that they must accept what they are told by their departments and that they find it difficult to challenge what they are told . |
| 14 | So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands . |
| 15 | ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly . |
| 16 | We hope you will keep it to hand and that you find it useful for the future . |
| 17 | And so you find yourself forced , not merely to note the diversity of belief and the strength of individual confidence , and to be a bit sceptical , but to search around for principles of adjudication , for ways of trying to sort out what beliefs are reasonable and acceptable , and what not . |
| 18 | ‘ All right , so you 're only a child , and so you find it 's just one more thing . |
| 19 | She is uninterested in fame ; she may attract it , however , and although she finds it annoying , she can turn it to good account for the work she is doing . |
| 20 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 21 | And although I found it hard to understand that you did n't want to meet her again that evening , I accepted that she was possibly ‘ not your type ’ . |
| 22 | This study might appear one sided with more detail about ‘ Anna Karenina ’ but I think it is inevitable and although I found it quite hard to compare such different styles , I enjoyed reading and studying both . |
| 23 | We turn over every stone , and if we find anything we do n't like , we kill it . ’ |
| 24 | And if we find it 's a , it 's , it 's er an effective system I think we should then do it for bridges |
| 25 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 26 | If they have got something cooking , and if I found I did n't like it when it came , I 'd tell them to get stuffed . |
| 27 | And if I find someone what shall I say ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And if I find anything ? ’ |
| 29 | The GP is the one who is very likely to know his patient well and if he finds him with chest pain of at least 15 or 30 minutes duration in the classic distribution , with no previous complaints , and obviously not a malingerer , that individual should have thrombolysis as rapidly as possible . |
| 30 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |