Example sentences of "[pron] would find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoned Moira and told her I wanted it out as soon as possible ; if she would n't have it I would find someone who would . |
| 2 | Tomorrow I would find chemical solutions to these new problems . |
| 3 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 4 | This particular tool I would find little use for . |
| 5 | I would find it very hard to follow gut feel if I could not put forward arguments on two sides of a sheet of paper as to why it was the right decision . |
| 6 | We try to see that conditions at work are such that if I , to make it personal , was working in a particular factory , I would find them as congenial as they could reasonably be . |
| 7 | I would find the same difficulty in putting down words for a dragonfly above a summer pond or a new spider 's web hung with dew on a spring hedgerow . |
| 8 | In the morning I would find myself putting on a T-shirt , a pair of tight pants and baseball boots , without any thought . |
| 9 | I would find it very difficult to go into a situation , like a communal changing room in a big store , where other women would see my body . |
| 10 | I was n't to be allowed to do what Fiona and Tremayne had both foretold , that I would find the truth for Doone . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid , ’ writes Sidney Pollack , ‘ I would find my imagination not up to the challenge of working with no limits whatsoever . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If I ever saw pepper coming out of a pepper pot I would find that funny . |
| 13 | ‘ I would find it difficult drinking so much pink . |
| 14 | ‘ I would be prepared to write a leader on this project , but I would find it difficult to take the opposing point of view to that given in those two leaders . |
| 15 | ‘ Thank God that I am not answerable to any higher authority ; but were I in the position of having to justify myself before the great British public , even I would find it difficult to defend your priorities . ’ |
| 16 | For my part , I would find it just as irksome as you , to work under his direction . ’ |
| 17 | Then I would find that the grass had carpeted the rubble and the bushes had begun to climb the torn traffic lights . |
| 18 | I can safely claim that nobody at all can read what follows without learning something new about him , any more than I could have imagined , when I began preparing it , how much unrecorded information I would find . |
| 19 | He expressed his feelings so many times in the same way that when he could not see me I would find myself mouthing the words with him : ‘ The thing that worries me is bandits and deep sand . ’ |
| 20 | I had gone believing that I would find plenty of eggs and fish from Lake Balaton — apparently a delicacy . |
| 21 | I would find myself searching for her . |
| 22 | get excited at around thirty I would find myself |
| 23 | This was hopeful , and the Guard Room Corporal confirmed that that was where I would find the Met Office . |
| 24 | Over the years I have bought many Pearl recordings and although occasionally I find a particular passage hard to live with , I would find it difficult not to play any of the following at least twice a year : Otello with Martinelli/Tibbett ; Bruno Walter conducting Mahler in 1936 and 1938 ( Das Lied von der Erde and the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 ) ; the pre-war Glyndebourne recordings with Busch ; the 1935 Vienna Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann and Gerhard Hüsch singing Schubert 's Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin . |
| 25 | ‘ I would find here wherever she was . |
| 26 | I would find it offensive to be confronted by my colleague 's knobbly knees , says Jim , 34 . |
| 27 | What I would find off-putting is the idea that people would see me as a divorced man 's bit of light relief . |
| 28 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 29 | The school had an excellent library , especially in the English section , and I would find myself immersed in the literary essays of T. S. Eliot , I. A. Richards , W. K. Wimsatt , Bradley or Dover Wilson , Maud Bodkin on archetypal patterns or Caroline Spurgeon on Shakespeare 's imagery . |
| 30 | While still in London I would wake in the night to find the bed devoid of Nigel , whom I would find in the kitchen , drinking tea and pacing the floor . |