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 Translation for 'to find sb sth' from English to French
trouver qn./qc.to find sb./sth.
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2 Words
trouver qn. en train de faire qc.to find sb. doing sth.
3 Words
prendre des renseignements sur qn./qc.to find out about sb./sth.
se renseigner sur qn./qc.to find out about sb./sth. [inform oneself]
4 Words
trouver qc. à dire sur qn./qc.to find sth. to say about sb./sth.
5+ Words
trouver naturel que qn. fasse qc.to find it natural that sb. should do sth.
se retrouver nez à nez avec qn./qc.to find oneself face to face with sb./sth.
Partial Matches
éprouver de la répugnance pour qn.to find sb. repugnant
avoir de la répugnance pour qn.to find sb. repugnant
trouver qn. mortto find sb. dead
dr.
juger qn. coupable
to find sb. guilty
dr.
reconnaître qn. coupable
to find sb. guilty
dr.
déclarer qn. coupable
to find sb. guilty
trouver qn. couchéto find sb. lying down
aller trouver qn.to go and find sb.
occup.
fournir un travail à qn.
to find sb. a job
occup.
replacer qn. [redonner un emploi]
to find sb. another job
dr.
déclarer qn. non coupable
to find sb. not guilty
recaser qn. [fam.]to find another job for sb.
s'attirer les faveurs de qn.to find favor with sb. [Am.]
s'attirer les faveurs de qn.to find favour with sb. [Br.]
occup.
placer qn. [procurer un emploi]
to find a job for sb.
trouver grâce aux yeux de qn.to find favour with sb. [Br.]
se réfugier chez qn.to find shelter at sb.'s home
trouver asile chez qn.to find refuge in sb.'s house
immo.
fournir un logement à qn.
to find sb. a place to live
dégoter qc. [fam.]to find sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • On her first day, Ally is horrified to find that she will be working alongside her ex-boyfriend Billy Thomas (Gil Bellows)—whom she has never gotten over.
  • However, they failed to find the Murrumbidgee River.
  • post-partisanship, where leaders put people over political parties and work together to find the best ideas and solutions to benefit the people they serve" and to "seek to influence public policy and public debate in finding solutions to the serious challenges we face".
  • ATP was discovered in 1929 by Karl Lohmann and Jendrassik and, independently, by Cyrus Fiske and Yellapragada Subba Rao of Harvard Medical School, both teams competing against each other to find an assay for phosphorus.
  • It is difficult to find reasons for such municipal extravagance in such a small town.

  • He used this to find the volume of a paraboloid. He could find the integral formula for any polynomial without having developed a general formula.
  • Each program is executed to find the result produced by that program, comparing it to the input "s".
  • In November, after having secured Malacca and learning the location of the then secret "spice islands", Afonso sent three ships to find them, led by trusted António de Abreu with deputy commander Francisco Serrão.
  • Teaching experiments could be performed by a college or university department to find a good introductory textbook, with each text considered a treatment.
  • The first states that two years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Hernán Cortés sent explorers west to find gold.

  • Anagrams can be traced back to the time of the ancient Greeks, and were used to find the hidden and mystical meaning in names.
  • In 1944, the manuscript was almost lost when a German V-1 flying bomb destroyed his London home. Orwell spent hours sifting through the rubble to find the pages intact.
  • Similar arguments can be used to find area formulas for the trapezoid as well as more complicated polygons.
  • This formula supplies an easy method to find the angle between two planes (or curved surfaces) from their normal vectors and between skew lines from their vector equations.
  • According to Viktor Frankl, the author of "Man's Search for Meaning", when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the "trauma of nonbeing" as death is near.

  • In the context of patent law and specifically in prior art searches, searching through abstracts is a common way to find relevant prior art document to question to novelty or inventive step (or non-obviousness in United States patent law) of an invention.
  • Several attempts to find a new home failed; one such stop was on Sicily, where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.
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