Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] found the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I was cold and wet by this time , but after a tour of inspection I found the house was deserted . |
2 | One day when I went to give my language class at the university I found the word maricone ( queer ) chalked in large Gothic letters on the blackboard . |
3 | On this field I found the best combination was to set the Silver Sabre at minimum discrimination and maximum sensitivity . |
4 | When I started to make it up to my horror I found the stripes did not match up front and back . |
5 | And after a speedy search I found the drawer where she kept all her gym knickers . ’ |
6 | In industry I found the status system much more difficult to comprehend . |
7 | When Leonora returned to the bedroom she found the bed turned down invitingly . |
8 | A TEENAGE papergirl who found the body of murdered bus driver Kevin McEvoy on her first day at work was back doing her rounds yesterday . |
9 | We struck out for Cambridge and although we made the odd wrong turn they were quickly rectified and with luck on our side we found the hotel . |
10 | When we finished our chat and tried to re-enter the auditorium we found the double doors were tight shut and we were locked out . |
11 | On arrival at the racecourse we found the large Hermès marquee to seat 1200 for a charity luncheon , surrounded by the Hermès village . |
12 | The whole morning was a fair to average shambles , even when we got back to Battalion HQ We found the basement at Cadogan Gardens full of fainting civilians — mostly rather pretty girls . ’ |
13 | When the police stopped the car they found the seals in the bag . |
14 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
15 | On my return I found the doors had been forced . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ I know the boy who found the body — I mean it must be him . |
18 | Kevin Whelan , 12 , the boy who found the hood from James 's jacket , claimed to know the youths who committed the murder . |
19 | At the bottom he found the three letters CIS and asked what it was . |
20 | Instead of the fairway he found the edge of the rough several times , and his irons were not flying straight at the flag . |
21 | Yorkshire , for so long the ugly sister ( fancy clinging to the extraordinary notion that you wanted Yorkshiremen to play for Yorkshire ) had overnight turned into Cinderella , with Tendulkar cast in the role of the Prince who found the shoe fitted perfectly . |
22 | It was his sister who found the bodies . |
23 | Deakin was a striker who found the net regularly and the evidence suggests that , had he been at a bigger club , he would have benefited from a better service and become a prolific scorer . |
24 | To my surprise and consternation I found the St Viger to be about the oldest hotel in Canada , probably First Class A-l in its time , but now somewhat run down , although the rooms were large and rather ornate . |
25 | When I entered the classroom I found the children , from five to nine years , well at work . |
26 | On this shelf I found the rest of my soldiers . |
27 | In the living room I found the usual debris . |
28 | Let us go back to the moment you found the body , the moment you realized that it was a body . |
29 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
30 | In a regional study including about 10% of the Danish population we found the population relative risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease among first degree relatives of patients with either disease to be about 10 , which strongly suggests that these disorders have a genetic cause . |