Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean to find out , even if it entails keeping you here indefinitely , so you might as well start talking and get it over with . |
| 3 | So I intend to find out exactly what is going on first , before I even consider giving my consent . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I intend to find out just why we 're selling room rates to Travel Enterprise for less than they are worth , ’ he said slowly . |
| 5 | I projected the child 's face into his own vanished future and attempted to see the man he would have become , the man I intend to find . ’ |
| 6 | You present a highly intriguing challenge , Miss Shannon Lea — and I intend to find out what lurks beneath that icy-cool exterior . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That 's exactly what I intend to find out . |
| 8 | By whom I do not know but I intend to find out . |
| 9 | I intend to find out whether she was there that night and who Leila was . ’ |
| 10 | Disappointed , perhaps , if I do n't find her — but I intend to , David , I intend to find her ! |
| 11 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 12 | La Meije loomed above , but I failed to find a party who were doing the Grand Pic and returning . |
| 13 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 14 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 15 | I got to find Marie and get my trousers changed . |
| 16 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 17 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 18 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 19 | But the farm , the Belle-Etoile , was not where I expected to find it . |
| 20 | I expected to find a tiny shrunken corpse . |
| 21 | Every time I returned home I expected to find the police waiting . |
| 22 | I knew that Hannah had experienced problems with rodents so I expected to find rat runs and nests underneath the flags , but only mice had been there . |
| 23 | I expected to find interdependence , but no uniformity , in the Greek approach to the various nations and in the response of these nations ( when recognizable from our evidence ) to the Greek approach . |
| 24 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 25 | It is n't what I expected to find . |
| 26 | Now I tend to find I need something else to put me to sleep . |
| 27 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 28 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 29 | I tried to find a more comfortable position but there was n't one , really . |
| 30 | In the meantime I tried to find a home for Poppy to go to when ( or if ) we eventually caught her . |