Example sentences of "[pron] found [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found relativity a bit hard to understand to begin with — because if you have n't done it before , the idea that velocity is relative to everything else , I found hard to grasp , because , before , I just said , that velocity was a definite value — now you 're doing it relative to everything else . |
| 2 | I found Ika a kind and gentle young man . |
| 3 | I found Basil a shy and rather quiet man who had a deep sense of fun under his quiet exterior . |
| 4 | I found Doctor an impressive witness . |
| 5 | These criticisms apart , I found Pro-File an impressive computer whose potential versatility puts it , quite literally , in a class of its own . |
| 6 | I did enjoy physics , but I found geography a lot easier , and I went and spoke to my careers worker at school . |
| 7 | More generally , the ‘ Angry ’ movement had been characterized by strong antihomosexual prejudices ( John Osborne 's Look Back In Anger and Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim are full of bullishly heterosexual scorn for ‘ effeminacy ’ ) which found Coward an ideal target . |
| 8 | Like her heroine in Prime Suspect she found success the hard way … |
| 9 | She found fault a lot . |
| 10 | Ariel tasted a certain triumph in his weakness ; she found cruelty a reward , now that she was penned in , her customary lightness fettered , her speed reined . |
| 11 | I have to say that we found Nicholas a very sad little boy . ’ |
| 12 | Husband and wife Graham and Gill Moore said they found Sunday the best time to shop . |
| 13 | They found numbers an odd way of expressing how they were feeling . |
| 14 | But Eliot , of whom he made some absurd insinuations , imputing plagiarism , told me later on that he found Belgion an exceedingly tiresome man to deal with . |
| 15 | Under the bonnet he found Sparky the cat scrambling across the battery . |
| 16 | Here he found Frank a great help as he had a fair knowledge of native North American trees and shrubs which , when checked with the big books , sounded as though they 'd do well in the peaty soil of Eire . |
| 17 | His eyes on mine , Conchis grimaced , as if he found death a joker . |
| 18 | He commented then , what he was to say in print later , that while he found Maritain a most charming man , his philosophical work , though claiming to reflect at every point Thomist orthodoxy , was in spirit quite unlike that of St Thomas : by which I presume he meant that Maritain had converted Thomas Aquinas into a French intellectual . |
| 19 | For instance , Lord Mountbatten , who was First Sea Lord at the time , records that he found Sandys a good listener . |
| 20 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |