Example sentences of "they [verb] found a " in BNC.
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1 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
2 | T. B. Bloody pest was stray animals , stray dogs — people would come up and say they 'd found a stray , and you 'd have to take it off them , take their name and address . |
3 | So they went found a found a colt in the street , tied it to the door of the houses , there was tying it , some of the by-standers asked them what are you doing , untying that colt . |
4 | Kalchu explained that every hunt begins like this : the dogs flush out the forest — the inaccessible chasms and the narrow hidden valleys — and when they 've found a boar , they 're trained to chase it downhill only . |
5 | ‘ At last , they 've found a natural successor to Geoff Boycott ’ |
6 | Claiming they 've found a balance somewhere between Jane 's Addiction and Jefferson Airplane , 8 Storey Window are an unashamed , intense , jamming rock band who are happiest when the drums are doing their own Ginger Baker thing and the guitar is taking a stroll in the stratosphere . |
7 | ‘ The Old Guard there they might — but their new D-G 's told them to lay off organisations like the Peace Crusade so how can they admit they 've found a pattern ? |
8 | You do n't often get people ringing up in the middle of the night to say they 've found a body in the bath . |
9 | And for the women you know I mean it 's i in a situation you probably I do n't know you know this comment that , Oh my my wife 's gon na nag me back to work , or whatever that was made in the beginning probably could be that the women were saying , Oh my God you know we ca n't afford to have you on strike just accept it you know just I 'm definitely not I think really they have felt they have really changed fund fundamentally they 've found a self confidence that they can say no you know it 's not good enough . |
10 | Doctors claim they 've found a new way of treating breast cancer which could save thousands of lives . |
11 | They 've found a gene which they think could be passed on by parents to their children . |
12 | They believe they 've found a way to destroy cancer cells without the unpleasant side-effects produced by existing drugs . |
13 | asthma 's wound up , they reckon they 've found a cure for that |
14 | There 's now a cause Flo , it 's a cause , they 've found a cause |
15 | The US companies hoped they had found a new seam of commercially-viable movies , but none thought too deeply about what they were buying into . |
16 | Historically , people were not led to seek a hierarchical classification because of a belief in evolution ; rather , they were prejudiced in favour of evolution because they had found a hierarchical classification to be appropriate . |
17 | After years of ticking over , the company realised they had found a group with the determination and talent worthy of excessive backing . |
18 | In January 1981 , Emsley and others reported in the Journal of the American Chemical at Society ( vol 103 , p 24 ) that they had found a new strong hydrogen bond which formed between fluoride and amides — organic salts of ammonia . |
19 | Pigeons thought they had found a regular roost on a Shrewsbury office block . |
20 | They had found a paper in the literature describing the ratio of helium-3 and helium-4 in volcanic regions and were unknowingly getting close to the origins of Chatterjee 's ideas in India . |
21 | Staff at the hospital had been amazed they had found a donor so quickly and her husband was overwhelmed by the speed of the events . |
22 | In 1990 , to great excitement , Kenneth Blum of the University of Texas at San Antonio , and Ernest Noble of the University of California , Los Angeles , announced that they had found a gene peculiarly common among alcoholics . |
23 | In America , where they often performed , the trains struck them as poignant chiefly because uncared for , but they had found a friend with a long New England face who was a fireman on the run to Boston , and his professionalism and high interest in the topic of transport were entirely cheering . |
24 | They drove towards Ashdown Forest , and even before they had found a suitable place to stop , Charlotte had begun to recount the events of the past week in such detail that it was obvious she was holding nothing back . |
25 | This profession , which most members had come to brimming with conviction that they had found a way of linking their idealism to an honourable way of earning a living , has been devastated by continuous attack from the media . |
26 | They had found a witness who confirmed that one of their prime suspects had left the party at the right time to murder Nicola . |
27 | They had found a patch of clean sand half-shaded by the rocks that were heaped on one side of the little cove . |
28 | ‘ The forensic people told us that they had found a trace of paper in his nostrils . |
29 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
30 | They had found a small restaurant away from the theatre circuit where there was no chance of bumping into Gesner . |