Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only I do find monosyllables wearing , dear ! ’ |
| 2 | I do find the habit of ministers of being bloody when things go wrong a trying feature of this job . |
| 3 | I do find , however , that prunes are generally more popular . |
| 4 | I do find it extraordinarily difficult to see how it [ women 's ordination as priests ] is consonant with the time and place that God chose to be incarnate . |
| 5 | Apart from this quibble , I do find that the whole performance has a slightly veiled and subdued quality about it , which may in part be attributable to microphone placement and the dull acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall , but may equally be the result of both orchestra and conductor being reluctant to take risks on such an auspicious occasion . |
| 6 | Clearly it is impossible to give each of these the attention they merit and I do find EMI makes life extremely complicated with such a plethora of titles ; although each clearly has its place in the EMI scheme of things . |
| 7 | What I do find surprising … ’ |
| 8 | What I do find unacceptable is the noise emitted from two particular types of machinery . |
| 9 | I do find him a bit wet after David Owen |
| 10 | In awareness from all spatial , temporal and personal viewpoints which are relevant to the issue ( = viewpoints from which I do find myself spontaneously moved in one direction or the other ) I find myself moved towards X , overlooking a relevant viewpoint I find myself moved towards Y. Be aware . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I only write down the figures , really , but I do find it fascinating . ’ |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | ‘ I do find it hard to take it all seriously , ’ he says . |
| 14 | If I do find them , they get short shrift . |
| 15 | Obviously the pieces gradually reduce in size but I do find that I can work with even very small pieces , as they stay whole and workable down to the last tiny fragment . |
| 16 | But one thing I do find sadly lacking is a middle-of-the-range clothes shop . |
| 17 | Yes , I think I do find housework monotonous , if you think one has to get up , make the beds every day , wash up every day , one should dust every day — I mean it is monotonous , is n't it ? |
| 18 | I do find the colonials tend to be rather over-zealous in their use of oak , do n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |
| 20 | To that extent it could well be said , and indeed I do find and hold , that the effectiveness of the first part of the order takes away the substance , as it were , of the whole order . |
| 21 | I therefore answer my first question in the affirmative and I do find as a result that Miss T. had the capacity to make a valid refusal of blood on that Sunday afternoon and evening . |
| 22 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 23 | I do find that I have been around everywhere . |
| 24 | Erm sometimes I do find being in Harlow very hard erm and there 's a lot of unemployment , there 's a lot of depression , there are a lot of one parent families and er the children ha er in one family they 've all got different dads |
| 25 | Cos I do find people with repayment mortgages actually erm er a lot of them pay over the odds , so they might be paying seventy or eighty pounds a month anyway to clear the mortgage , so mentally they 've already made their decision to actually accelerate the payments on it . |
| 26 | Then , realising how witless that sounded , she fumbled on , ‘ I mean yes , I suppose I do find you attractive . ’ |
| 27 | For all his ego and vanity , even Florian has never for a moment imagined that I felt any sort of lust or love for him , although he also has no idea just how selfish and immature I do find him outside a broadcasting studio . |
| 28 | What I do find difficult to swallow — we argued long about this — is some strange belief of his that the world is immaterial and that humanity ( if I have it correctly ) is no more than a kind of metaphysical construct projected by nature and relying on words rather than flesh for its continued existence . |
| 29 | Yes I do find that there 's a general thread , an an an and and one would expect that , what I 'm what I 'm guarding against is taking too much notice of precise quotes from from from P P G thirteen . |
| 30 | I , I do find specifiably embryonic , with respect , extraordinary . |