Example sentences of "[conj] i find [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 2 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
| 3 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 4 | Item 1 is an enamelled badge that I found in the garden of an old house . |
| 5 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |
| 6 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |
| 7 | The illustrations show a small hoard of silver coins consisting of one Elizabeth and four Mary groats that I found near Bridgewater , Somerset . |
| 8 | As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful . |
| 9 | ‘ With the same natural effusion of good colour , ’ Hope continued , deciding that excess was more apt than enough in this instance , ‘ that I find in your own complexion , ma'am . ’ |
| 10 | The , the problem that I find in , in , in doing the role plays and I mean they 're good what we 're doing , but because you 're , you 're doing bits here and bits there |
| 11 | What will give you that extra bite of interest is something like — and here I stop and open my indexed notebook of Victoriana ( and I advise you to keep a similar book for your chosen period ) and I find under " B " : boiled mutton on the sideboard for breakfast . |
| 12 | And I find with my running it 's the same : they said ‘ you 're too short . ’ |
| 13 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
| 14 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 15 | ‘ Is the candle at Paul 's church connected with the one Julia and I found at the asylum out-house ? |
| 16 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 17 | Erm , I went on a diet last year , to one of these clubs and , within record time got to the weight I was supposed to be , calorie counting and then I had to come off and I found for weeks after feelings of terrible guilt if I ate |
| 18 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 19 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 20 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
| 21 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 22 | Battery life is stated is stated to be around 9 hours but I found to be less than this . |
| 23 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 24 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 25 | But I found in the city centre , that er I did enjoy working there , but it it can be a bit of a cold and unfriendly place because it 's so such a rapid pace of life . |
| 26 | But I found in order to get the thing moving |
| 27 | But I found out the way to braid leather myself . |
| 28 | I have sent for you this morning , Jones , because I find on looking up your record of attendances at police court that you have had neither a charge nor a summons during the last three years . |
| 29 | Because I found with Lindsey , anyway , with Ryan I had no trouble or nothing cos the only |
| 30 | I write now as I found at the time . |