Example sentences of "we [vb past] find a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early one morning , we tried to find a clerk in a department that sprawls across a full floor . |
| 2 | We 'd found a gold mine . |
| 3 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 4 | We 'd found a balance . |
| 5 | After that point , I started to write some much more original stuff and we began to find a style of our own . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We needed to find a product that could meet all our current needs with the capability to meet future , unforeseen , developments , ’ says group reporting manager Ken Hassan . |
| 7 | We needed to find a balance between them and help the regions to help themselves . ’ |
| 8 | We managed to find a corner . |
| 9 | We went to find a call-box . |
| 10 | There are few passenger-boat services up and down the Egyptian Nile railways and roads are quicker — but we hoped to find a felucca to hire for the day . |
| 11 | Because we had to find a nurse to ask |
| 12 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 13 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 14 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |
| 15 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 16 | After Peter 's death in 1982 , we had to find a home for our private collection of 20,000 children 's books and comics . |
| 17 | Such a short time she was in my arms and then we had to find a hole in the earth to place her ; a piece of stone to mark her passing . |
| 18 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |
| 19 | Unfortunately , television studios are strangely designed and dressing-rooms are often miles away from the studio , so we had to find a place where she and her entourage could relax in comfort without the need to climb stairs . |
| 20 | We visited Oslo Fjord with only six 250lb bombs and that would not do much damage even if we had found a target ( which we did not ) . |