Example sentences of "and found [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was confused by all these solicitous questions , and found myself telling more lies than I had to . |
| 2 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 3 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 5 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 6 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |