Example sentences of "i have found the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He answered at once , ‘ Whenever I 'd found the hole in the floor . |
| 2 | " I saw a hare and after I 'd found the body there was a sparrowhawk , a kestrel . " |
| 3 | I 'd found the candle-making kit in the cupboard under the stairs five or six years ago , and experimented with the colours and consistencies for months before hitting on the idea of using the wax as a wasp-prison . |
| 4 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 5 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 6 | to New York where I had found the rogue ensconced in a suite of |
| 7 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 8 | None the less I had found the evening reassuring and felt no difficulty in saying that I was sorry but I was suddenly most awfully tired and if no one minded I thought I would go to bed . |
| 9 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 10 | After much thought and careful study I believed I had found the answer . |
| 11 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 12 | I wish that I had found the Opposition 's citizens charter a little more convincing , but half the ideas that they put forward in their citizens charter , as a spoiling exercise to the Government 's , were already in operation and the other half were vague promises and side-stepping some of the problems that have been created by Labour-controlled local authorities up and down the country . |
| 13 | I had found the wire cages where they were trapping them coming down into a stream . |
| 14 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 15 | But , having used a number of different twin stem units I 've found the single wire stem much more versatile , although sometimes a little harder to remove from stubborn placements . |
| 16 | I 've found the increasing dogmatism and certainty that she 's right the most sinister thing about her because that so often goes with paranoid feelings , and it may be that this is one manifestation of that . |
| 17 | And perhaps I 've found the thing for me already . |
| 18 | I 've found the sizing of the Freestyle trousers to be quite generous , which makes them a bit baggy at the waist . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've found the guy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But I think I 've found the cure ! |
| 21 | I 've found the Heide . ’ |
| 22 | I think I 've found the path again . |
| 23 | Books and other references sources can be extremely useful and I 've found the staff at most libraries very helpful … that is , once they 've been persuaded that they are not dealing with an imaginative miscreant ! |
| 24 | She is already in her nightdress , and I stand up holding my toothbrush like I 've found the present I forgot to give her . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've found the whole evening so far unforgettable , ’ Merrill said softly , adding hurriedly , ‘ It 's such a beautiful place , so atmospheric , and — ’ She shrugged , laughing a little . |
| 26 | To be honest , I 've found the other paths to be much quicker to use , but it is very nice to have a fine tuning tool like this included in the package . |
| 27 | Edens phoned producer Ernest Lehman and said , ‘ I 've found the boy to play Cornelius . ’ |
| 28 | I think I I 've found the report er the particular map . |
| 29 | Erm I 've found the original packet I lost . |
| 30 | but they 'll keep sending me one till I 've found the other . |