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Example sentences for "finding them"

  • He was a long time in finding them, as is generally the case when one wants a thing in a hurry.

  • I sent Thring in search of them, and he, on finding them a short distance off, fired his revolver to let us know that the tracks were found.

  • Shooting buffaloes in thick bush, when the only means of finding them is by tracking, is not only intensely exciting works but most dangerous, and as a rule most unsatisfactory.

  • Three years after the time of which I am writing I killed them frequently to the south, but now they were away to pastures new for the time, and we decided on going on north to the Ba-Mungwato country in the hope of finding them.

  • Finding them in good spirits and in nowise disheartened by the recent affair, which they seemed to consider a check rather than a defeat, he resolved to seek the enemy again and give him battle.

  • Jefferson made a few efforts to be heard, but, finding them ineffectual, suffered the torrent of vituperation to pour on.

  • Finding them deserted, he concluded that those of whom he came in search had made good their retreat to the settlements, and it was too late to pursue them.

  • Finding them averse to an engagement, he made his dispositions for forcing the strong pass of Waehtendonck, an island surrounded by Niers, of very difficult approach, and situated exactly in his route to the Rhine.

  • Men are supposed to remit their labours, because they find their labours to have been vain; and to search no longer after truth and wisdom, because they at last despair of finding them.

  • Every man is more speedily instructed by his own language, than by any other; before we search the rest of the world for teachers, let us try whether we may not spare our trouble by finding them at home.

  • Old mother 'Peggy' was far too sedate and stanch to follow her son in the chase; she remained with me until he had brought back, and flushed the birds, and then she vied with him in finding them.

  • Besides the greatly decreased chance of finding them, birds that to a certainty would become uneasy, and make off if pursued by a dog tracking them, will often lie well to one who finds them by the wind.

  • We finding them sometimes in islands, made them goe into the watter and after we killed about a score, we clipped the ears of the rest and hung a bell to it, and then let them loose.

  • The councell is called, but we had no need to make a speech, finding them disposed to make the voyage & to submitt.

  • I offered my service, soe went and looked for them 2 dayes; finding them the 3rd day, gave them the assault when they least thought off it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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