Example sentences of "[noun] she found the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Leonora returned to the bedroom she found the bed turned down invitingly . |
| 2 | The various relations did n't have time to help the bride because they had to get themselves ready , and when Ellie knocked on Terry 's door to offer her own help she found the bride-to-be face down on the bed in floods of tears . |
| 3 | At one local headquarters she found the door literally locked , and one lunch was boycotted by the very party bosses she intends to oversee . |
| 4 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 5 | In the last second before the knifing pain in her chest forced her to breath in water she found the dangling mouthpiece , and pushed it back between her teeth . |
| 6 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 7 | To her dismay she felt her cheeks grow hot , and by the time she reached the treatment area she found the first of her patients had arrived . |
| 8 | And underneath the toys she found the letter . |
| 9 | The babysitter , 14 at the time of Stephen 's death in November last year , told police she found the little boy dead after leaving him alone to go to a disco . |
| 10 | Along the way she found the time to set up Ranzau , and in March this year the couple ploughed their capital into beefing it up . |
| 11 | Lucy stepped into her warmest black and white trousers and high-necked top , and when the appetising aroma of sizzling bacon and eggs drew her towards breakfast she found the dining-room to be nicely heated by the logs blazing in the large open fireplace . |
| 12 | When she went to check on the order she found the shop , A Baker , The Walk , Ipswich , had closed down . |
| 13 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 14 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 15 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |