Example sentences of "had found a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
| 2 | Anne thought Nina had found a hiding place and was lying low . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) He explicitly introduced the fact that the committing justices had found a case to answer whereby the jury may have been influenced adversely to the appellant . |
| 4 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 5 | The sun had found a chink in the clouds , and was gilding emerald meadows and dark woodlands . |
| 6 | They first had found a foot and then the body of a man , but he was dead . |
| 7 | He said he had managed to swim under the pier and had found a ledge . |
| 8 | On one occasion he had found a sheep 's head jammed between some of the stones . |
| 9 | Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams . |
| 10 | It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph , as a junior clerk . |
| 11 | Superintendent Bennet from Newbury , accompanied by Sergeant Bull , had found a hiking stick belonging to Henry Tidbury near the scene of the crimes . |
| 12 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 13 | He had found a pile of papers in one of the dormitories and wanted to look through them . |
| 14 | Yesterday , Dr Colin Campbell , of Horticulture Research International 's experimental station at East Malling , Kent , said his team had found a way of predicting the migration patterns of harmful aphids and could lay on ambushes to kill them when they arrived . |
| 15 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |
| 16 | Davy had found a way to burn a candle in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 17 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 18 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I half-hoped , half-dreaded the mast would go up in sparks and a bang when the Big Man pulled the lever ; that FAKINTIL had found a way to wrap half a dozen shearing charges around the legs . |
| 21 | ‘ No ! ’ she shrieked , and managed a half-turn away from him , then discovered that he had found a way of keeping her exactly where he wanted her . |
| 22 | A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective . |
| 23 | Within moments , Alison had found a pretext to excuse herself . |
| 24 | Here biblical images of ‘ rebellion ’ and ‘ holy war ’ were fused with recent experiences of anti-slavery and republican struggle to forge a discourse of political representation for women — the enslaved women who had found a voice , a point of identification in one of themselves . |
| 25 | Richmann had found a couple of his men in one of the city 's bars , and dragged them out to take up position around a junction in the northern poor quarter . |
| 26 | The teenagers claimed that the police had found a footprint on the embankment near where James 's body was found , that police had taken trainers from the boy they said did it . |
| 27 | I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it . |
| 28 | Now , when he had found a pot of honey , Corbett was hurrying him away . |
| 29 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 30 | Police in north India , meanwhile , said they had found a cache of 6lb of RDX plastic explosive , similar to that used in the Bombay bombs . |