Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb mod] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Either you increase my husband 's wages to reflect the work he does on your behalf , or I might find it my duty to persuade him to look for other employment , perhaps with one of the many property owners hereabouts . ’ |
| 2 | But we 'll be told beforehand , or I 'll find out . |
| 3 | Accordingly I expect that either I shall find Bill at home drunk or I shall find him at home sober . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , Charles , if there 's anything else I can tell you , or I can find out for you , let me know . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I know she 's alive and I 'll find her yet . |
| 6 | He stopped with the door handle in his hand and quietly said , ‘ Yes , I 'll come back some day when you are gone and I 'll find where you 've hidden the gun , for you would n't have dared take it outside this room , would you ? |
| 7 | If it 's too long for you , just let me know and I 'll find something shorter and a bit easier . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll have some of them , and I 'll find out how many . |
| 9 | If you wo n't take me , then stop the car here , and I 'll find my own way . ’ |
| 10 | You must take it out very carefully , and I 'll find somewhere safe to put it . |
| 11 | I have only to get in close and I 'll find out . |
| 12 | Mum just have a word with dad and I 'll find somewhere to go ! |
| 13 | Just ask dad if I can have the time off before Friday and I 'll find somewhere to go . |
| 14 | Right bring the tin round here and I 'll find you a pencil right , now bring your Snow White thing round , that 's the best one to use , right |
| 15 | Which one , yeah , and what the prices are , and I 'll find out the price for , I probably be able to get it cheaper , because the guy who I buy the Mega stuff off , |
| 16 | The school had an excellent library , especially in the English section , and I would find myself immersed in the literary essays of T. S. Eliot , I. A. Richards , W. K. Wimsatt , Bradley or Dover Wilson , Maud Bodkin on archetypal patterns or Caroline Spurgeon on Shakespeare 's imagery . |
| 17 | On extended expeditions there were occasions when he would break or lose even his spares , and I would find myself combing deserted beaches and jungle tracks looking for a small circle of glass on which , I was acutely aware , rested the success or failure of an entire project . |
| 18 | And I shall find you empty of that fault , |
| 19 | I shook my head and bent back to my work , but every now and again , as I was writing or just thinking , a niggling little side-track thought would distract me , and I 'd find myself remembering Janice 's words , and wondering what exactly Uncle Rory might have hidden within his later work ( if he really had hidden anything ) . |
| 20 | I could perhaps take a little bit of paper like that and I 'd find |
| 21 | And I saw her before and I 'd find out . |
| 22 | I had the strange impression that he wanted me to believe he was death ; that at any moment the leathery old skin and the eyes would fall , and I should find myself the guest of a skeleton . |
| 23 | I 'm reading Sense and Sensibility and I must find out what happens to Marianne . |
| 24 | It 's 8.30 am and I must find that discharge connector for the breathing gear — we 'll need it on the ship when loading begins . |
| 25 | These will fade away and I will find joy and enthusiasm for what I do . |
| 26 | And I will find a little more from devious places for you . |
| 27 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 28 | Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards . |
| 29 | It looks hard and dark , and I can find no fresh vegetables to go with it . |
| 30 | And I can find no word Bellen to mean " balls " anyway , only Balle . |