Example sentences of "and found [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he came back and found we 'd made off by ourselves , he 'd go back to Tara and tell them we 'd reneged on the bargain , ’ finished Snodgrass . |
| 2 | ‘ The club gave us a presentation because they looked into their records and found we had been members the longest , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 3 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
| 4 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 5 | No , representative Amnesty , all for , only known he had , I think it was Ann 's and he , Ann was out he did n't get her , I thought , no it was n't you , it was Ann , and he , and he could n't get her , I do n't understand quite what 's he talking about , but anyway , I phoned the Justice and Peace Group and found they 'd already , |
| 6 | The French police ran a check on fingerprints , and found they 'd got Puddephat . |
| 7 | We 've tried these hangers ourselves , and found they worked exceedingly well on surfaces which normally required drilling and plugging . |
| 8 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 9 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 10 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 11 | He looked round for Catherine and found she had vanished . |
| 12 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 13 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |
| 14 | She secured her garage door and , having decided to walk round to the front of the building to find out what Naylor was so furious about , she turned around — and found she had no need to go anywhere . |
| 15 | ‘ If Fraser had n't mucked about when he got back and found she 'd gone , we might have caught her before the boat sailed . ’ |
| 16 | For the first time in her life Miss Fogerty was in command , and found she liked it . |
| 17 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |
| 18 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 19 | ‘ But the neighbours were suspicious and found he had soil in his shoes and a cock 's head under his bonnet . ’ |
| 20 | This was the serious business of becoming rich — a fantasy which involved descriptions of the clinic he would open with the proceeds , the disciples he would train , and the short burst of bad temper or glum despair as he checked his coupon and found he had n't won . |
| 21 | His scam was discovered when a club manager rang the boy 's company Sky As A Kite and found he had dialled the head of sixth form at the prestigious Leeds Grammar School , West Yorks . |
| 22 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 23 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 24 | ‘ Sarah did n't know he was n't home until she went to call him next morning and found he had n't slept in his bed . |
| 25 | However , when he neared the blank concrete wall , he saw an opening to his right and found he had merely reached a ninety degree turn , round which the tunnel still stretched as far as his torch beam could reach . |
| 26 | Chatted with him and found he 'd missed breakfast . |
| 27 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 28 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 29 | She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil . |
| 30 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |