Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] found [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly Sophie found she was in deep water .
2 So Jane found it easy to ask Flora — whom she found honest and direct — how she and Alastair had got together .
3 Rosalba was holding a wet cloth on her face , and so Caterina found she was home again ; her mother was taking off her shoes and rubbing her feet .
4 Suddenly Rachel found she had a lump in her throat .
5 And he goes well James came and said , he goes ah so Jimmy found him and he and James goes ooh no Alistair found me .
6 Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last .
7 But the gesture was accomplished so smoothly and was finished so quickly Dexter found it impossible to judge .
8 Three hours later Drew found her there .
9 Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke .
10 Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet .
11 Even Napoleon found it expedient to buttress force by prescription , having antique gems implanted in his crown and terming it the crown of Charlemagne .
12 Very likely he expects a bambina — even Constanza found they did n't speak the same language any more .
13 It were weeks ago Laura found it . ’
14 All the girls opened their grammar books at the page Mademoiselle commanded then Mary-Lou found she had her English grammar instead of her French one so she reopened her desk to get the right book .
15 And then Robobird found it .
16 Again Tallboy found it hard to judge the tone but if pressed he would have said it was sarky .
17 Doubtless Robb found it portentous that the blues ( of Hartlepool United ) comfortably beat the reds ( of Darlington . )
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