Example sentences of "find them in " in BNC.

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1 One is hard pressed even to find them in London .
2 Old people in particular often ensure each night before they go to bed that their house is tidy and their last instructions are by their bed in case they should die in the night and someone will have to find them in the morning .
3 It would not surprise most linguists to find them in women 's speech , because they are absolutely normal in all speech .
4 Especially unusual to find them in a Tyrian , because as a rule Tyrians only care about making money .
5 The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " .
6 ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . )
7 Since the other Nematodirus species do not have such critical hatching requirements , a sudden flush of L3 does not occur and although N. filicollis , N. spathiger and N. helvetianus have all been associated with outbreaks of nematodiriasis in sheep and cattle , it is more common to find them in conjunction with the other trichostrongyles .
8 For most of the folk immortalised by Louisa 's busy camera seem to have wanted posterity to find them in their Sunday best .
9 I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea .
10 Besides finding the seeds of scepticism about a created world in Descartes and Malebranche , whose theories of perception involved both material things and ideas , Berkeley found them in Locke too .
11 When the Sheriff and his men approached the brothers at Winchelsea , they found them in a state of drunken revelry .
12 ‘ I found them in a book and I took them .
13 They even found them in Britain , and Bath remained a watering place for centuries .
14 ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days .
15 He found them in a mess of vomit .
16 But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations .
17 A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way .
18 I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state .
19 I found them in those dawn hours .
20 Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams .
21 My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj .
22 His beloved father , Jack , had no especial love for cricket , although later on young John would delight in a recollection that when cricket began to seek better playing surfaces it found them in the graveyards .
23 I found them in an old file .
24 When John Armourer , from Robert Chamberlain 's manor of Gedding ( Suff. ) , needed sureties , he found them in James Tyrell ( himself from Suffolk but active in Wales ) , Robert Fiennes ( also of Suffolk ) , Arthur Pilkington ( from Lancashire but then resident in Essex ) and William Houghton ( of Worcestershire ) .
25 She found them in the Green Room .
26 They found them in 23C .
27 Her boyfriend found them in the back of his van , abandoned by someone months or years before their discovery , and they have collected chocolate stains from half eaten Minstrels and white smears from Quaker oats .
28 We found them in the stables , tending to the horses ; country lads whose constant talk was of saddles , bridles , reins and spurs ; what was good horseflesh and what was n't ; what horses should be fed and when they could drink .
29 I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage .
30 When John Armourer , from Robert Chamberlain 's manor of Gedding ( Suff. ) , needed sureties , he found them in James Tyrell ( himself from Suffolk but active in Wales ) , Robert Fiennes ( also of Suffolk ) , Arthur Pilkington ( from Lancashire but then resident in Essex ) and William Houghton ( of Worcestershire ) .
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