Example sentences of "[vb base] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | We first met Odette when she was a finalist in a competition organised by WOMAN and Etam to find a size 16+ Model Of The Year . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean to find out , even if it entails keeping you here indefinitely , so you might as well start talking and get it over with . |
| 3 | Segura believes that players must have enough pride when they lose to find out why they lost . |
| 4 | You tend to find that you become accustomed to the timing on your local water and that when sailing in a different place it takes a while to learn the timing of a different wave pattern . |
| 5 | Now I tend to find I need something else to put me to sleep . |
| 6 | Physically , men tend to find that they take longer to get an erection , and ejaculation results in less semen than when they were younger . |
| 7 | Apart from the hassles of implementing EDI , suppliers may lose out because they tend to find themselves bearing the cost of holding the stocks which previously were held by their customer . |
| 8 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 9 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 10 | The liberal-historians , on the other hand , tend to find themselves in a somewhat more tricky position . |
| 11 | Although we offer holiday packages , we tend to find that the Citalia holidaymaker is often more discerning . |
| 12 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 13 | I think a lot of people tend to find it hard to get by on a , a monthly pay packet as it is |
| 14 | As a result those sections of the rural population who are unable to run a car now tend to find themselves more isolated from the outside world than at any time in their lives . |
| 15 | Tacit collusion is a form of non-co-operative equilibrium : it results from the rational , independent pursuit of self-interest , which courts tend to find not nearly as reprehensible , to say the least , as conspiratorial conduct . |
| 16 | Strangely , apart from one or two specialist applications , we tend to find that we simply do n't need them ! |
| 17 | In particular , they tend to find collective expression , as with the medieval dances of St John and St Vitus ; the wild and orgiastic festivities of ancient near-Eastern religion , with their song and dance and sexual licence ; and , in Greece , the choruses that sang and danced in the worship of the fertility god , Dionysus . |
| 18 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |
| 19 | You know you tend to find there are a couple of fiddle factors around actually . |
| 20 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 21 | In perception , you tend to find models of perception that 're based on top down or bottom processing . |
| 22 | You tend to find that groups , if you 've got a group who 're gon na launch a bomb y'know that that groups make far more risky or dicy de decisions than individuals . |
| 23 | Now one of the things that you tend to find is that if you were to ask about groups then people regurgitate all the stuff about groups but with most questions you can usually see links to other parts of the syllabus . |
| 24 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 25 | Quite quite often you tend to find in industry where er , if you 're dealing with mechanical bits and pieces |
| 26 | Most attacks on stock occur in the autumn , when the young mink disperse to find their own territories , and in the spring , when males wander in search of females . |
| 27 | ‘ I sure intend to find out . ’ |
| 28 | So I intend to find out exactly what is going on first , before I even consider giving my consent . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I intend to find out just why we 're selling room rates to Travel Enterprise for less than they are worth , ’ he said slowly . |
| 30 | I projected the child 's face into his own vanished future and attempted to see the man he would have become , the man I intend to find . ’ |