Example sentences of "but [vb mod] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | To confine the interaction to what is known is the safest course , and there are limits to the number of times a teacher can reply — as primary teachers are encouraged to — ‘ I do n't know , but let's find out , shall we ? ’ without straining their credibility and frustrating their pupils . |
| 2 | A person may buy something in good faith , but may find out afterwards that the seller had no title to it , perhaps because the seller or somebody else stole it . |
| 3 | Ballycastle have their share of experienced campaigners but may find that Cushendall are in no mood to relinquish their county title . |
| 4 | You are saying that I will not ride there , or open a hollowing , or step down through a cave , but must find the threshold to a journey inwards . |
| 5 | If he can not deduce that one or other party was to blame he can not send them both away empty-handed but must find that both contributed ( as happened in Baker v Market Harborough Industrial Co-operative Society , Wallace v Richards ( Leicester ) Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1472 . |
| 6 | Another , senior designer from a German competitor ( not BMW ) stated : ‘ I like the crinkled leather on the doors ’ , but could find nothing about the exterior to praise : ‘ It 's design stagnation ; from some angles it looks like a Lincoln . ’ |
| 7 | From then on she discovered many things about the human race , but could find no explanations for them . |
| 8 | He had sifted through Judi 's memory , had scooped into Anne 's mind , but could find no traces of Ariadne . |
| 9 | Under the chairmanship of Sir Douglas Black , a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons , this accepted the statistics but could find no scientific logic to the link with the reprocessing plant . |
| 10 | Roland copied out this passage and read on , but could find no further reference to Miss LaMotte , though Ash was a fairly frequent host and guest . |
| 11 | I tried to think of something dignified and contemptuous to say to the officer but could find nothing . |
| 12 | We examined the lining of these air sinuses , but could find no damage caused by the worms , and there was no sign of worms in any of the passages of the lungs . |
| 13 | A woman in the UA baggage claims department checked on the computer , but could find no record of me . |
| 14 | She searched around for further words to express her grief , but could find none , and kept repeating herself . |
| 15 | I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs . |
| 16 | Fearing the worst , the driver and second man got off the locomotive and examined the train and the line side , but could find nothing untoward . |
| 17 | Desperately she wanted to reassure him , but could find no words . |
| 18 | He knew it was a decoy , but could find no other . |
| 19 | It appears that he did search for 3-dimensional examples but could find none without divisors of zero . |
| 20 | He searched his pockets but could find no key . |
| 21 | Cursing , Cardiff fumbled at the mechanism but could find no locking-catch . |
| 22 | I would have been pleased to start this section in similar fashion , but could find very little evidence of improvements . |
| 23 | Sir Percival Sharp fought for the AEC mainly on the first issue — but could find no support — so that the second , the potential extension of the power of central government , went largely unchallenged . |
| 24 | She searched for it , thought it might have fallen down , but could find it nowhere ! |
| 25 | She sought desperately for an answer , but could find none . |
| 26 | British rail tested it exhaustively but could find no way of making it fail . |
| 27 | Despite Rayners Lane 's lowly position , they were not afraid to come forward in the opening fifteen minutes , but could find no way past a resolute Milton defence . |
| 28 | Hampshire said it did not want to duck its share of the South-east 's demand for housing , but would find land enough in the south of the county in preference to development nearer London . |
| 29 | They are not expecting special dispensation and that is why so many of the Lourdes pilgrimages are undertaken by genuine pilgrims who may not be able to throw away their crutches at the end but will find new strength from their visit . |
| 30 | I will not expect anyone else to make me happy but will find it within me . |