Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] find [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had set out to try and find a passage to the Orient round the north of Asia in the hope that this would rid the merchant ships of the scourge of pirates who were terrorising the southern trade routes . |
| 2 | ‘ This is a regrettable situation with hostile feeling remaining between the village and the Phillips family and I have met Mr and Mrs Phillips to try and find a way forward , ’ he said . |
| 3 | At the biochemistry department at Oxford University scientists are joining the international race to try and find a vaccine for AIDS . |
| 4 | Ted Willoughby , who had looked after Sugar throughout its service with 467 Squadron , came on to the scene and offered to try and find the missing items and then re-fit them to the aircraft , to which Jack Bruce readily agreed . |
| 5 | In return for us putting that money into the scheme er straight away er as Paul said the council will be agreeing to , to make us priority for handling corporation funding and if that 's not successful er to use your reasonable endeavours to try and find the remainder of the scheme yourselves . |
| 6 | Ellis and Ellis 1982–4 ) , Looking for Information ( Jordan 1980 ) , Developing Reference Skills ( O'Brien and Jordan 1985 ) , Upgrade Your English ( Debska 1984 ) , and many others all use prefaced questions like ‘ Look at these questions , then read through the passage quickly to try and find the answers ’ ( Skills for Reading Morrow 1980 53 ) . |
| 7 | He screwed his neck around to try and find the enemy . |
| 8 | The resource investigator can like a team that 's always looking outside of a group to try and find the information necessary outside of the group for the rest of the group . |
| 9 | And my plea is , apart from all the politics that 's going on , and all your wrong and I 'm right , etc , etc , etc , if we 've got sixty-odd police constables available , then , somehow or other we ought to try and find the money to resource them . |
| 10 | One of Derry 's pressing problems is that they do n't possess a natural left-sided midfielder — hence the constant chopping and changing to try and find the right balance across the middle . |
| 11 | Hereford City Council is working with Mr Boucher to try and find an alternative site for the sanctuary . |
| 12 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 13 | It may take time and courage to decide what you want and find the confidence to carry it through . |
| 14 | Corbett turned to his guide to ask what was happening but found the man had had enough sense and discretion to depart as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | We could see the village of Ibsley off to our right so down a side road we trudged and found a cycle repairer — almost every village had one . |
| 16 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 17 | As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition . |
| 18 | He asked a number of men to tell me what they had seen and found the night before . |
| 19 | He went slowly across the room past the bathroom he had just relinquished and found the door beyond that . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll talk later — much later … ’ he murmured softly , slipping an arm beneath her trembling body so that her breasts were lifted towards him , his lips trailing a scorching path over her quivering flesh , a deep ache gripping her loins as his mouth sought and found the hard swollen peaks of her breasts . |
| 21 | A cooler customer , it is suggested , would somehow have sought and found a diplomatic solution . |
| 22 | The question is , of course , more easily asked than answered and finding a research methodology which would be valid and practical was the first of Petch 's problems . |
| 23 | Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income . |
| 24 | And Seve 's back was a real pain — the cold got to it and it troubled him so much that we had to go and find a physiotherapist . |
| 25 | I had to go and find a new damn school myself . ’ |
| 26 | When one day Jean-Claude had to go and find a spare part for the Motobécane which was not obtainable in Théovard , Otto cornered me . |
| 27 | I 've got to go and find a black hole , have n't I ? ’ |
| 28 | I 'll have to go and find a room after lunch , I suppose . " |
| 29 | I 've been so thirsty for the last hour , I could n't be bothered to go and find a drink . |
| 30 | Here the philosophy is to go and find the clients in a range of sectors which have a compatible style and approach leaving the other clients to seek their executive search needs elsewhere . |