Example sentences of "find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a village near Amiens , I found a shop where you can still get tea , and enough cakes to make a schoolboy sick for a week . |
| 2 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 3 | ‘ Castle catholics ’ , those who found a place in the Stormont administration and developed a stake in the union , have also voted alliance , but are probably now , in 1989 , switching their allegiance to the newly found conservative associations , which are seeking to bring British party loyalties to Ulster . |
| 4 | It may even be possible to obtain approval from opposing groups for a set of moral maxims such as peace , justice , and freedom — see the lists of values in McKernan 's ( 1980 ) research , for which he found a high level of acceptance among both Northern Ireland communities . |
| 5 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 6 | ‘ Major Bagshot accompanied Bonzo to the 15th green where he found a ball and a complete set of Henry Cotton ‘ St Andrew 's ’ clubs lying , abandoned . |
| 7 | Not too far away , I found a street with some shops and , thankfully , a cafe . |
| 8 | Eventually I arrived down near Leicester Square , found a cafe that was still open and bought myself another cup of tea . |
| 9 | From somewhere , her hands found a diary and wrote Lucy against the date four weeks away . |
| 10 | You 're in luck — we found a fowl this morning , and it did n't look too well , so we had to put it out of its misery . ’ |
| 11 | During the forties and early fifties these , plus the romantic songs evoked by wartime partings , loss and refindings , found a worthy competitor in the more recent folk-songs of America , which were borne out of economic collapse ( on the white hand ) , and subservience and racialism ( on the black ) . |
| 12 | Next morning I found a note on my desk . |
| 13 | She found a spanner and set to work on the bike . |
| 14 | She opened another door and found a proper farmhouse kitchen , large and homely , with quarry tiled floor , scrubbed table and four chairs . |
| 15 | ‘ And I found a list of rules pinned to the larder door . |
| 16 | Sara found a dirty mug on the draining board and washed it . |
| 17 | In the end she found a couple of blankets and the alarm clock and curled up regardless . |
| 18 | I found a piece of quarter-sawn oak in my wood store , which would do perfectly for the job . |
| 19 | Fat fish in laburnum ( above ) ‘ I have always made things , ’ says Ned , ‘ and while on a boating holiday on the Thames about 15 years ago I found a branch of very dark wood lying on the ground . |
| 20 | Mick even found a modern Italian guide . |
| 21 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 22 | After all , if you 're a superstar , it 's no good admitting that you found a route given three grades easier than your latest creation anything but a path ! |
| 23 | ‘ Shortly after it returned , Pete was rolling around on the carpet and found a titbit , ’ Andrew explained . |
| 24 | In the then president , Sir Hugh Casson , he found a kindred spirit . |
| 25 | Using data from 1,000 1988 annual reports , the survey found a close correlation between industry performance and pay increases . |
| 26 | Inside the man-made cavern , located 100ft up the side of a cliff , an archaeological survey team found a hastily-written message recording that ‘ Joezer ( the priest ) has just been killed ( or wounded ) . |
| 27 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 28 | But things went Karpov 's way when he found a move that had clearly been overlooked by Yusupov 's analysts . |
| 29 | When the runners , who included several international competitors , arrived at the crossing at Strensall , near York , they found a single policeman calling them to a halt . |
| 30 | As a bass , his appearances in the choir at the Three Choirs Festivals found a singer who ‘ could really get the bottom notes ’ . |