Example sentences of "find [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found nothing on Josie but a couple of folded Kleenex and a Tube ticket , but then when he rolled her over he heard a faint clink of metal on stone . |
| 2 | ‘ We found nothing on the river bank , ’ said Farag , still sturdily but less confidently . |
| 3 | Believe it or not , Robyn , but some women are quite pleased to find me on their doorstep at midnight . ’ |
| 4 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 5 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 6 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 7 | Wallace found them on Lombok , the island on the Australian side of his dividing line . |
| 8 | Two-twenty-five found me on the steps of a slightly crumbling mansion in what the Estate Agents would call a highly desirable residential area . |
| 9 | He 's the man I was fighting when the soldiers found me on the marshes , Pip . |
| 10 | The physical aspect of my journey had collapsed : a heel injury became aggravated , with a cut almost in as far as the bone , and the rest of the tour found me on wheels or afloat more than on foot . |
| 11 | ‘ By the time you found me on the moor , I knew everything , but I could prove nothing . |
| 12 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 13 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 14 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 15 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 16 | Me and Sam missed our way and found ourselves on the edge of Foxton Mire . |
| 17 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 18 | We crossed to the island of Krk at 16:30 and found ourselves on what was virtually a single track ‘ road ’ heading for the town of Krk . |
| 19 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |
| 20 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 21 | With still hours to go before the match we had another little walk about , somehow we found ourselves on Park Lane . |
| 22 | The two younger brothers , Charles and John , had no such luck , and were forced to look for accommodation of their own ; Charles found his on Pig Street — appropriately named , in view of his activity as a pig butcher — just north of Frome town bridge . |
| 23 | McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed . |
| 24 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 25 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 26 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 27 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 28 | When the election was won , most handsomely , Pym found himself on the backbenches . |
| 29 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 30 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |