Example sentences of "she found [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found him physically attractive , but his languid , elegant and mannered demeanour irritated her . |
| 2 | She desired him , she found him physically attractive to a degree that still had the power to surprise her . |
| 3 | She found him physically attractive . |
| 4 | She found him again later that night and took him into her bed . |
| 5 | She found him utterly sympathetic and charming . |
| 6 | Trudy had put up with his nonsense with great patience but when she found him busily working away in the region of her left ear it was too much . |
| 7 | Luke had left the bedroom , and after putting on denim shorts and a little broderie anglaise top , she found him outside on her balcony , with the bamboo table she had recently purchased with four matching chairs set for breakfast , the muesli-type cereal he knew she always ate put out for her along with yoghurt , fruit juice and coffee . |
| 8 | ‘ She says she found him just outside the ship . ’ |
| 9 | In spite of her rage with him she admitted that she found him just about perfect to look at . |
| 10 | She found him surprisingly ordinary , a solemn-faced boy in plain , clerkly brown clothes , long-legged and angular like everybody 's young brother , with a fierce , cleft chin and huge , attentive hazel eyes . |
| 11 | He was so handsome , so present — it was a warmth and vitality that only his immense rage had masked , making her lash out in self-defence , but now that it was turned to a kind of gentle humour , and — she had to admit it — a single-minded interest in her she found him dangerously attractive . |
| 12 | She found him very rewarding ; he fed well and was thriving . |
| 13 | Not that it would be any hardship , for she found him very attractive . |
| 14 | And Max Jacob was there to help her , she informs her readers She found him far more useful and reliable in household matters than Modigliani . |
| 15 | He did not find her amusing , and she found him quite disastrously dull . |
| 16 | Victoria was not one to yield up the authority of the Crown too readily and continued throughout her reign to assert it on occasion , such as objecting to the appointment of the nominee of a Prime Minister to a Ministry where she found him personally objectionable . |
| 17 | She wanted to stop him , but she found him totally irresistible . |
| 18 | Certainly she found him so , despite what he so obviously thought of her , and as the kiss deepened she felt sleepy and warm and pliant — the nicest thing ever to have happened — and then bereft when he broke the gentle exploration . |
| 19 | The night before , Cati had fallen asleep sitting with her mother and Rosa on the balcony in the cool of the evening ; when her mother had given her a gentle push to rouse her ; she found her slightly feverish and put her to bed . |
| 20 | When she woke the next morning , she found them even more entrancing . |
| 21 | Phoebe wrapped Maggie in her towel and called Rachel to come and hold her while she found them both some clothes . |
| 22 | Sarah had been able to attend the caelidhes again , warned by her mother that she must not do more than two dances , but she found them greatly changed . |
| 23 | She had not yet raised her eyes to the frescos ; she would do so in due course ; she found them almost unbearably painful to behold . |
| 24 | She found them too friendly and too knowing . |
| 25 | ‘ I expect she would laugh her socks off if she found you here in royal regalia ! ’ |
| 26 | What would Miss Mates think if she found us here like this ? ’ |
| 27 | There was a look in his eyes that she could n't quite remember seeing before , and she found it distinctly disturbing . |
| 28 | She found it slightly uncomfortable , being scrutinized by a bird . |
| 29 | It 's like the story Mum used to read me when I was a kid about the white puppy-dog that got lost and its little girl owner looked everywhere for it and when she found it again she did n't recognize it because it 'd got so dirty it was n't her little white dog any longer . |
| 30 | She lost her microphone , she was shitting herself , she found it again . |