Example sentences of "find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went into the whole ritual and found nothing open to the charge that it encouraged superstition . |
| 2 | He had checked the file of that period and found nothing . |
| 3 | Peter Yeo opened his mouth to speak , and found nothing useful to say . |
| 4 | Nigel found nothing less erotic than bad taste . |
| 5 | If , as was entirely possible , he found nothing and Vic turned out to be an innocent eccentric , this action would be inexcusable . |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry ! ’ she grinned awkwardly as her fingers searched the recesses of the paper and found nothing . |
| 7 | Isobel found nothing odd any more in public discussion of her breasts and the milk and the way the baby acted during feeding . |
| 8 | George had reasoned with her , explaining that his daughter had swept the room two days ago , and found nothing . |
| 9 | He opened cupboards and drawers , and found nothing suspicious . |
| 10 | Now , they dragged one of the local lochs and they poked about in the river but they found nothing . |
| 11 | They had a look in the river and on the banks but found nothing of course . |
| 12 | No Elsie they found nothing in Loch Craig but a huge pike . |
| 13 | Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later . |
| 14 | It was only after they had peered into and groped about in what they felt certain was the right cave but found nothing that they decided to withdraw into the trees and wait for the dawn . |
| 15 | In 1976 , the film Ilsa , She-wolf of the SS was brought before the courts of New York State on a charge of obscenity , but the case was dismissed because the judge found nothing which could properly be covered by the Miller test , no ‘ lewd exhibition of the genitals ’ , no representations of ‘ ultimate sexual acts , normal or perverted ’ . |
| 16 | By some quirk in her moral fibre , Tamar found nothing incongruous in her tempestuous affair with the groom , caring for Stephen as deeply as she did . |
| 17 | I found nothing about it that I did n't particularly like and plenty that I did . |
| 18 | But , wading through long grass and nettles in country churchyards , they found nothing . |
| 19 | Hamish Hamilton and I went on search for survivors but found nothing , except sea marks of crashed aircraft . ’ |
| 20 | He went on through the files but found nothing else of interest . |
| 21 | She was intrigued and , as her meeting with him was social , she found nothing odd about the offer of a drink . |
| 22 | She made no objection to his strange ways , his obsessive working habits were his own business , and she found nothing repugnant in his looks , his soiled clothes . |
| 23 | When a patrol of the Second Field Regiment , the Royal Artillery , arrived at the scene they found nothing . |
| 24 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 25 | That morning , as usual , he found nothing to complain of , so instead he wheeled on me to demand whether the boat 's electronic instruments were functioning properly . |
| 26 | He found nothing . |
| 27 | Reaching the bridge , they had a good look round but found nothing . |
| 28 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
| 29 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 30 | ‘ Umpires found nothing wrong ’ |