Example sentences of "had find " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to find where it was . |
| 2 | But he still had to find a wife . |
| 3 | Thomson came from a generation of American composers which had to find its own way without benefit of university patronage . |
| 4 | The union estimates that local education authorities had to find an additional £7m , as well as awarding 8,400 fewer classroom teacher incentive allowances , to meet the cost of incentives for senior teachers . |
| 5 | One must remember that these were times when each crew had to find their own way to the target , nearly always having to use dead reckoning to do so , and when moonlight or a fortuitous flare might illuminate the target . |
| 6 | I had to find out for myself . |
| 7 | None the less it is clear that Marx felt that before he could complete a book on pre-capitalist societies , he had to find out much more about these societies and their transformations . |
| 8 | Finally many people of this caste had to find other non-traditional occupations . |
| 9 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 10 | Its pressure paid off , but Whitehall had to find a face-saving formula to cover its miscalculation . |
| 11 | There is so much of Keats that he admired — his pugnacity , his social concern , his gusto , his direct presentation of the moment 's phases of mind and moods of temperament — that one becomes aware of the impress of Thomas 's own mind and experience through his comments on Keats : ‘ Because he was then in the midst of his greatest period , and had to find vent for the pressure of poetry within him , he had to live away from Fanny Brawne , at Shanklin and Winchester : had he been near her long , at this time , love and poetry together , not to speak of the ‘ hateful literary chit-chat ’ of Hampstead , would have been insupportable . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to find you , ’ she said , by way of explanation . |
| 13 | I now had to find 20 chickens before dark . |
| 14 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 15 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |
| 16 | They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi . |
| 17 | For Long Terminals , Sessionals and Tutorials , non-branch members who had previously paid 11s. 0d. now had to pay £1 ; instead of 12s. 6d. branch members had to find £1 4s. 0d . |
| 18 | It refused to accept the bent card , and she had to find a barrier run by a human being . |
| 19 | The billeting troubles seemed very minor compared to my happiness , but Wendy and I still had to find somewhere to live . |
| 20 | Zborowski had to find the money for Soutine 's trip . |
| 21 | The sisters married and , when Asheham was eventually relinquished , Virginia and Leonard Woolf had to find another country base . |
| 22 | In order to win West Bank allegiance in the face of Israeli and Jordanian competition , the PLO had to find a local partner . |
| 23 | In Alexandria he found that the railway meandered down to the beach and passengers had to find their way on to the trains without any benefit of station buildings . |
| 24 | However , it was obvious that if they wished to attack moored shipping , they had to find suitable boats from which to do so . |
| 25 | To stop muddy water getting into the valves , they had to find an alcove in the roof , and create an artificial air bell by opening a tank and filling the alcove with air . |
| 26 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 27 | The restless indifferent force of human energy , responsible alike for beauty and ugliness , comedy and tragedy , saintliness and crime , had to find its own level inside the wire . |
| 28 | With the loss of Southwark the project organisers had to find another similar London borough . |
| 29 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 30 | I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite . |