Example sentences of "never find [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 2 | Under the circumstances then , perhaps it was wisely ordered that I never found a man to form that special relationship . |
| 3 | They were never united in their opposition to the king , and they never found a leader comparable to Hereford and Norfolk in 1297 or Thomas of Lancaster in 1310–11 ; but their opposition reveals the fragility of the political settlement Edward had achieved after 1330 , and the danger that his close associates who had helped him to power might now be seen as a new court clique , the king 's familiares . |
| 4 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 5 | The moor can be a very pleasant place on a bright spring day , and we never found the work tedious . |
| 6 | He never found the proximity of women offensive or objectionable , which was probably due to Pershti 's gentle influence ( she had not been Shannish ) , but it took Lucien a while to overcome a feeling of discomfort , having so many of them around him . |
| 7 | A conscientious but unimaginative Minister , Brooke never found the touch needed to be a successful Home Secretary . |
| 8 | She never found the baby and leaves gifts at every house where there are children , just in case the Christ Child lives there . |
| 9 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 10 | It was recognised that ‘ You never find a textbook that quite matches your teaching plan ’ , but most teachers found the materials available adequate . |
| 11 | ‘ Let us worry about that , ’ said the Captain , who knew exactly what would happen if nobody paid and that they would in all likelihood never find the body . |
| 12 | And so his knell is knolled ’ ; by Malcolm , ‘ The night is long that never finds the day ’ ; by Macbeth himself , ‘ Send out more horses , slurr the country round , /Hang those that talk of fear . ’ |
| 13 | Barbarina never finds the pin … an innocent recitative turns into a quarrel that is interrupted by the Countess … |
| 14 | She had never found a life here , a raison d'être . |
| 15 | To be frank with you , I 've never found a space in a lead break where I 've felt like using a whammy move . ’ |
| 16 | But the lifts of the pen came regularly at every fourth letter — Middlemass had never found a forger who remembered to vary the interval at which he lifted pen from paper — and the dot above the i , high and slightly to the left , and the over-emphatic apostrophe were almost a trade-mark . |
| 17 | I 've never found a way to convince them otherwise … |
| 18 | Picturesque eclecticism never found a place there , and a classical tradition emerged which set Australia apart from Canada , India , South Africa , and even to a certain extent neighbouring New Zealand . |
| 19 | He 'd never found a wire he could n't climb . |
| 20 | One reason is simply that the futures industry has never been precise in its thinking on the question ; indeed , it has never found a definition necessary for commercial purposes . |
| 21 | It was a terrible time for the Orcs , who suffered defeat after defeat and never found a leader of their own to equal Sigmar . |
| 22 | According to Doyle : ‘ in principle , a publishing company would marry up a lyricist with a music writer , but I have never found the opportunity or the talent to do it . ’ |
| 23 | I have never found the sight of a grown man in a false moustache pretending to walk into lamp-posts remotely funny , and even less amusing is the story of a miserly workaholic who could n't keep his hands off under-age girls . |
| 24 | Thank goodness he had never rushed into anything-though that was partly because he had never found the woman he wanted to rush into anything with . |
| 25 | She understood why Johnny had felt saddened when he had learned of their passing , and she smiled briefly as she recalled that she had never found the courage to tell him of the passing of that Empire , too — fearing that such knowledge could have precipitated an apoplectic fit ! |
| 26 | He 'd never found the Gun , of course ; they were very clever , very clever and cunning indeed . |
| 27 | He had never found the nerve to ask her out . |
| 28 | She was sure she 'd never found the scent of cooking food so seductive . |
| 29 | Since I am a short , plump , Asian young woman , with glasses and shortish hair , I 've never found an advert with a woman looking anything like me . |
| 30 | By the time we reached Tony it was obvious we would never find a crossing point . |