Example sentences of "for [noun] [conj] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 2 | She looked at Travis for support and found him grim-faced . |
| 3 | I said i can go out and walk the streets for hours and find no one . |
| 4 | Hamish Hamilton and I went on search for survivors but found nothing , except sea marks of crashed aircraft . ’ |
| 5 | After the fight had ended John Pain went out in a Magister to look for survivors and found two German aircrew hanging onto a lifebuoy off Ghajn Tuffieha . |
| 6 | We repeated the experiments with a precursor for protein and found that an increase in protein synthesis occurred also . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ he yelled , reaching for the baseball bat he kept by the side of the bed for intruders and finding he could n't move his arm . |
| 8 | When Ludovico came back to the apartment with food for lunch and found her stripped to the waist , washing herself in the cracked kitchen sink , he immediately started making love to her , pushing her back until the taps dug into her . |
| 9 | I went back to the house for lunch and found my father chopping driftwood in the back garden . |
| 10 | I want to stress this connection between searching for home and finding a tongue , a writing voice , because I believe it to be fundamental to your own writing development . |
| 11 | Other parents long for grandchildren but find that their children delay marriage , or else their career-minded daughters or daughters-in-law have no intention of starting a family for a good few years . |
| 12 | Chettle looking for Rozario and finds him and it goes towards Collimore just cleared in the nick of time by Whitlow . |
| 13 | Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box . |
| 14 | Suppose I measure unc for A and find + , and unc for B and find + also . |
| 15 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 16 | ‘ I examined the two bottles for prints and found nothing identifiable on the hydrochloride , but on the nux vomica bottle there were fresh prints of the deceased 's left hand and on the stopper good prints of the forefinger and thumb of his right hand . |
| 17 | He looked round for Catherine and found she had vanished . |
| 18 | BEDS group , Airsprung , swopped Habitat for MFI and found a better market for its pine furniture . |
| 19 | For all those interested , the telephone number of the UK Bungee Club for bookings and to find out locations is 0506 884188 . |
| 20 | However , Operation Granby proved that it is possible to go out onto the charter market for ships and find ships from many different nations to perform the tasks that we wanted of them . |
| 21 | For a long time she sat at the breakfast bar , gazing into space , searching for answers and finding none . |
| 22 | We went looking for like-minds and found aliens . |
| 23 | Already they 'd dusted for fingerprints but found none that should n't have been there . |
| 24 | The auburn-haired left-winger moved to Aston Villa in August 1922 for £500 but found himself unable to win a regular first team place at Villa Park , because of the brilliant form of Villa 's English International winger , Arthur Dorrell . |
| 25 | Suppose I measure unc for A and find + , and unc for B and find + also . |
| 26 | WENDY ELKINGTON SHOWS HOW TO GET THE RIGHT INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVICE , LOOKS AT BANKING FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN AND FINDS OUT WHETHER IT PAYS TO HAVE A LODGER |
| 27 | Fitzormonde went looking for Mowbray and found his corpse . ’ |