Example sentences of "and find [noun] " in BNC.

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1 4 Write your own Lost and Found poem , using a different letter .
2 Then he skinned the rusty Sterland and found Shearer again for the England striker 's 22nd of the season .
3 I wandered around , looking busy , and found Fitzormonde and Colebrooke standing over Mowbray 's body . ’
4 We attempted to investigate , briefly , some aspect of ‘ way of life ’ and found Blacks and Whites had , on average , gone out just under three evenings in the previous week and Asians only one and a half times .
5 We also talked about experiences of being victims of offences and found Blacks had significantly less , and had reported fewer of these to the police .
6 He prised the sealed top open and found army uniforms , with no insignia marks on them .
7 She arrived within fifteen minutes and found Delia Sutherland in the morning room , with her face pressed into the wing of an armchair .
8 ‘ She might have gone up to see Angy and found Delia Forbes there … ’
9 Lily let herself in with her alarm key at six that evening and found Adam in the shower .
10 When we reached the new target and found gaps in the cloud and bombed , my second pilot just remarked that he was glad we did not bomb Mannheim , and I asked why .
11 The only other large studies with controls examined hip fractures and rheumatoid arthritis and found odds ratios of 1.5 and 2.1 .
12 They reached the stables and found Murtach waiting for them with his sword strapped to his back and a quiver of arrows at his hip .
13 Finding it , and telling him bluntly , ‘ That 's going to be the size of an egg soon ! ’ she pulled her hand away again and found touches of blood .
14 He went upstairs and found Catherine checking some proofs .
15 Weld et al combined exercise testing and variables from the Norris index and found exercise duration , the frequency of exercise induced ventricular ectopics and an abnormal chest X-ray to be significant independent predictors of 1-year mortality .
16 Of the gentry , only the Catholics who were cut off from public office and subjected to heavy fines retreated entirely into their localities and found difficulty in profiting as much as the others , yet their authority as squires remained largely untouched .
17 Bates , on the other hand , relaxed after claiming the first set 6–1 to lose the second 6–0 and found difficulty in mentally recharging as the 25 year old Swede took his opportunity to achieve a career best performance to reach the final .
18 ‘ Sprechen kommandant , bitte , privaten , ’ I said very slowly , as if I had just learned these words and found difficulty in repeating them .
19 But he had been unafraid , although a tremor had gone through him as he entered the great Sun Chamber and found Dierdriu alone and waiting for him .
20 Mrs Connie Cousins , a long-suffering woman of forty , opened her front door and found Sergeant Joe smiling at her .
21 They claimed to speak for traditional family values and found support from various fundamentalists — Orthodox Jewish , Roman Catholic , Baptist — in an attempt both to broaden their appeal among Haringey 's multiracial population and to strengthen their message that homosexuality was ‘ unnatural ’ in all cultures .
22 Maginn canvassed other British delegates and found support for his idea of creating a representative body in the United Kingdom and Ireland .
23 R. G. Vines , of CSIRO in Melbourne , is among the theorists who have analysed rainfall patterns over South Africa , Australia and New Zealand and found evidence of cyclic patterns including recurring severe droughts at roughly 20-year intervals .
24 These commissions have drawn on expert opinion from the social science community , and found evidence for both sides .
25 They studied sterling , Deutschmark , yen and Swiss franc futures-forward price differences and found evidence of autocorrelation , which they interpreted as being caused by futures contract indivisibility .
26 headquarters and found evidence that the river is one of the most polluted in the twelve E C countries .
27 What if his Mum came back unexpectedly and found Lee in the house ?
28 Her mother came up to her room a short while afterwards and found Pamela in a very distressed state with the empty bottle in front of her and blood on her clothing .
29 Lord Henry ran out of the room and found Dorian lying unconscious on the floor .
30 They always knew things were bad when they came back from school together to William 's house and found William 's grandad painting battleships .
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