Example sentences of "[verb] found the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has found the management problems in each sector to be remarkably similar . |
| 2 | C.M. Brasier of the Alice Holt Lodge Forest Research Station has found the fungus , which attacks a plant 's roots , in cork oaks in Portugal and Spain , the species ' heartland . |
| 3 | The former England Under-21 player has found the net just twice in 20 matches this season but last night he insisted : ‘ My confidence is still sky-high . |
| 4 | For this production he believes that he has found the Shylock to replace Zero Mostel . |
| 5 | Yet still he has found the will — and the money — to fly 40 Lebanese orphans to America for Christmas . |
| 6 | Many a student has found the route to vegetarianism via depleted funds . |
| 7 | PC Martin Roddy , based at Charlton Kings in Cheltenham , has found the policeman 's lot is often not a happy one . |
| 8 | He accepts the acclamation of the mountain men as a way of saving his playmate from rough handling , after she has found the Crown . |
| 9 | Section 5 prevents this practice completely , by providing that avoidance of liability for defective goods caused by negligence of the person involved in their manufacture or distribution can not be excluded by a term or notice in a " guarantee " of goods ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption as against a person who has found the goods to be defective while he was using them , or while they were in his possession , otherwise than exclusively for the purposes of a business . |
| 10 | If Kujau is telling the truth and has found the location , the treasure should have been recovered by the time you read this . |
| 11 | Now , thought Conradin , she has found the box . |
| 12 | The woman from Ty Fach has found the pictures that I made on the rock , and the little woman with her has looked at them . |
| 13 | But now , more than a century later , the Norwich team has found the answer . |
| 14 | David Dorn has found the answer — FastLynx ! |
| 15 | A racing stables looking for warm and healthy bedding for its horses has found the answer in yellow pages … quite literally . |
| 16 | Now , 8 years later , a builder working beside the River Cam , half a mile from Mrs Bilney 's home , has found the purse in the river . |
| 17 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 18 | A Wildlife Trust survey has found the immigrants in ponds in south-west London . |
| 19 | Granted the potential meaning of to postulated above , these two general categories provide a clear illustration of Guillaume 's principle ( 1984 : 134 – 5 ) that actualizing a potential meaning is an operation of thought which takes place while the speaker is mentally constructing a sentence and which he intercepts when he has found the representation which he feels as adequate for what he wants to express . |
| 20 | Again and again , SAVE has found the Department of Transport has failed to recognize the value , in historic and aesthetic terms , of country house parkland . |
| 21 | Halted at a red light , Robyn consults her A to Z , but before she has found the place on the map , the lights have changed and cars are hooting impatiently behind her . |
| 22 | Delaney turned aside , and was about to ask Forster if he 'd found the cargo manifest , when Nell , who had been looking over his shoulder , spoke . |
| 23 | He answered at once , ‘ Whenever I 'd found the hole in the floor . |
| 24 | She 'd found the Man of her dreams , except she was still awake . |
| 25 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 26 | This time , stung by his coolness , she 'd found the strength to insist on her independence . |
| 27 | Later she told him that she was surprised he 'd found the place , grateful that he 'd taken her . |
| 28 | After we 'd found the corpses of the assassins . |
| 29 | " I saw a hare and after I 'd found the body there was a sparrowhawk , a kestrel . " |
| 30 | I carried on drinking and talking until Ken O'Mara rushed into the room and screamed that he 'd found the body . ’ |