Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [conj] find [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1887 , however , he had tried the existing Sunderland Union and found it wanting . |
| 2 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 3 | Paddling out at real Waimea was the equivalent of squaring up to an over from Harold Larwood and finding you had forgotten your box and pads . |
| 4 | Rudyard Kipling ( who once was forced to travel on a migrant train in the United States and found it a ‘ nightmare ’ ) encountered a peculiarly American hazard for the famous traveller . |
| 5 | David Tindle also tells how once he visited Minton at Allen Street and found him , in very good mood , getting out new laundry . |
| 6 | But he had also read the life of Bishop Charles Gore and found it inspiring , so it was not always sickening to work as a bishop . |
| 7 | The Herald spoke to Patricia Routledge and found her to be keen to return to the Yvonne Arnaud , where the audiences recently warmed to her in Alan Bennett 's Talking Heads . |
| 8 | Phillips added : ‘ The players and staff are 100 per cent behind Barry Fry and find it difficult to see a future for themselves and the club without him . |
| 9 | Ramsey had read the life of Archbishop Randall Davidson by George Bell and found it very depressing — a noble and unspoilt man inside a sickening system — ‘ the wire-pulling , the hedging , and energy spent on things that do n't matter , and all the sitting on the fence ’ . |
| 10 | This is like playing for Shildon against Bishop Auckland and finding you were being marked by Bobby Hardisty . ’ |
| 11 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |