Example sentences of "find they a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He details his daily struggle : trying to treat patients as he knows he can , yet unable to find them a hospital bed or specialist referral . |
| 2 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 3 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 4 | Hungary has appealed to foreign zoos to find them a home . |
| 5 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 6 | Mrs Lennox found them a pail and a large enamel container . |
| 7 | Schofield found them a rehearsal room at Middleton Cricket Club where his father was on the committee . |
| 8 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 9 | They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains . |
| 10 | But in the 1950s , with the first wave of postwar affluence , young people in transition began to have money and the adman found them a place in the consumer society . |
| 11 | My wide feet found them a bit tight , but I swapped the footbeds for the Sanmarco ones , which are much thinner , and both pairs then fitted me better — a leaf taken from Merrell 's book . |
| 12 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 13 | He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike . |
| 14 | Actually I found them a lot more convenient than |
| 15 | She is insisting that Gerry finds them a ‘ love nest ’ a safe distance from his wife . |
| 16 | Although Sheila finds them a handful and is known to shout at them , she has always sought appropriate help . |
| 17 | Though the trend in tennis today is towards the high-tech , powerful , graphite rackets , often with larger heads , many women find them a little heavy and sometimes even a bit too large . |
| 18 | One of his successors , Lord Fisher , explained that gaiters were for the restriction of blood circulation and possibly accounted for the number of swollen heads among their wearers , but he added that , ‘ I myself find them a very comfortable kind of bondage ’ . |
| 19 | Between ourselves , I find them a little too deterministic for my taste . |
| 20 | I find them a constant worry when they 're sleeping cos you 're making sure whether they 're still breathing |
| 21 | Most of this book is devoted to paradigmatic sense relations ( lexical semanticists , in general , have found them a richer vein to mine than relations of the syntagmatic variety ) . |
| 22 | The driver had found them a parking slot some forty yards distant , and there the four man back-up team had begun their long vigil . |
| 23 | During the second world war Burmese and Indonesian nationalists allied themselves with the Japanese , finding them a useful lever against the colonial power and in some ways preferable to it . |
| 24 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 25 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 26 | On the other hand , they felt that counsellors were generally helpful in sorting out their most pressing needs , particularly in finding them a more sympathetic GP and resolving their accommodation and financial problems . |
| 27 | You 'll find them a pleasure to browse through . |
| 28 | All will flower for longer if you can find them a cool spot away from the dry heat of radiators . |
| 29 | They 're all right , really , but if you 'd prefer peace and quiet , you might find them a bit exhausting . ’ |
| 30 | They might find them a bed and breakfast or something . ’ |