Example sentences of "i find [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Klipspringer were numerous on the cliffs at the top of the mountain , and there , above a thousand-foot precipice , I found among a mass of tumbled rocks the fresh tracks of leopard . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |
| 3 | Security is a word I found in a dictionary . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 5 | I HAVE JUST RETURNED from a trip to Norway , a country I find like an exaggerated version of Scotland — bigger mountains , wider moorland , wilder scenery and more extreme temperatures . |
| 6 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |