Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , in the far corner of the field I found a medieval buckle . |
| 2 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 3 | In this study we found a good agreement between the two tests , particularly considering the fact that they measure two different variables — namely , bile acid losses and bile acid synthesis . |
| 4 | On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met . |
| 5 | Without any experience of that industry he found a useful partner in Thomas Gray , the manager of a small ironworks at Coatbridge , with whom in 1861 he formed the business of Colville & Gray . |
| 6 | In the rehearsal room after lunch I find a tough-looking guy brawling with two younger men . |
| 7 | 1 While I was digging in the sand I found a strange gimble. 2 Carl and Jayne are both beamish , but Mike is the beamishest person I known . |
| 8 | When patrolling policemen checked the pub they found a rear window smashed and could hear Joyce and another man inside . |
| 9 | Outside every field you find a home-made latrine , waiting for passing cyclists to contribute valuable fertilizer . |
| 10 | Every single time I do this job I find a new record by Rancid Hell Spawn on top of the pile . |
| 11 | On Roman tombstones and in the Iron age in the Celtic period we find a mounted night killing serpents . |
| 12 | At the back of the shop we found an old mannequin with a bob hair-do and a 1920s low-waisted dress . |
| 13 | Acting on his own initiative he found a mediocre painter whose technique was sound , and took some lessons in perspective from him . |
| 14 | One day I found a dead blackbird , already in an advanced state of decay , in the road outside my house . |
| 15 | One day I found a little bag . |
| 16 | Next day we found a good army doctor who examined Rachel and said with care she would soon be well , the M & B had done its work , and then to add to our trouble you all went down with scarlet fever — caught on the boat I expect . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 19 | When we reached this area we found a small stream passing under a bridge marked Puente Chinoluiz . |
| 20 | When the first people left for the fields in the morning they found a dead dog on the path . |
| 21 | Underneath the sink he found a large tin of rat poison . |
| 22 | In the school library he found a bizarre book from the Protestant underworld , Walsh 's Secret History of the Oxford Movement ( third edition 1898 ) , which pictured Anglo-Catholics as conspirators to promote tyranny , lies , and immorality . |
| 23 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 24 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 25 | In Marx 's critique we find an ethical conscience cutting through the ontological identification of truth with an ideal intelligibility and demanding that theory be converted into a concrete praxis of concern for the other . |
| 26 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 27 | Back in the kitchen he found a stove-enamel jug . |
| 28 | In the audience I found an appreciative Dave Allen , the comedian . |
| 29 | I bought the green sofa-bed three years ago from a shop whose proprietor assured me it was the product of a reputable English firm ; after its delivery I found a large label underneath which said ‘ Made in Belgium ’ . |
| 30 | On arrival I found a young man from the GLC equipped with a magic lantern , slides , wall plans and all other relevant data . |