Example sentences of "i [verb] find the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 2 | Every time I returned home I expected to find the police waiting . |
| 3 | I tried to find the window of my room . |
| 4 | I want to find the answers to certain whys and wherefores which have puzzled me all my life . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I want to find the killer . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to find the man who killed her , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He answered at once , ‘ Whenever I 'd found the hole in the floor . |
| 8 | " I saw a hare and after I 'd found the body there was a sparrowhawk , a kestrel . " |
| 9 | I 'd found the candle-making kit in the cupboard under the stairs five or six years ago , and experimented with the colours and consistencies for months before hitting on the idea of using the wax as a wasp-prison . |
| 10 | I arrived to find the house empty . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , how else am I going to find the money ? |
| 12 | I turned to find the young Mr Cardinal beaming happily at me . |
| 13 | But I can not accept mysteries and I like to find the reason behind them . |
| 14 | It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this essay . |
| 15 | ‘ However , the good news is that I managed to find the switch for the air-conditioning . |
| 16 | First I went to find the boy 's father and told him , ‘ There 's nothing you can do by staying here . |
| 17 | I do find the habit of ministers of being bloody when things go wrong a trying feature of this job . |
| 18 | Though I am reluctant to lay down rules , I do find the following guidelines , set out in the Fowlers ' The King ‘ s English , helpful as a sort of mental checklist for my own work : |
| 19 | I do find the colonials tend to be rather over-zealous in their use of oak , do n't you ? ’ |
| 20 | Erm well I , I do n't know quite what erm they 'll be teaching you out of in your er abnormal course but erm er I do find the , the the sort of current generation of American textbooks quite erm |
| 21 | HSMorris Bristol PS I did find the article amusing and am no less a woman because I did . |
| 22 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 23 | I did find the window open , and locked it myself because of the way it was rattling in the wind . |
| 24 | I did find the two sons of one of my brothers . |
| 25 | However I did find the coverage of the police chasing a joyrider ( or a ‘ deathrider ’ as some people chose to call them ) very informative . |
| 26 | I did find the discussion interesting and illuminating , er it 's gon na be a difficult task and I think that task for the County Council and certainly three of the district councils , starts on Monday afternoon . |
| 27 | People who do n't know what they 're doing can kill birds of prey — their weight is very delicately balanced , as you 've seen from the trouble I had finding the right flying weight for Dawn . |
| 28 | I had to find the money somewhere . |
| 29 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 30 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |