Example sentences of "found the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at the number plate and realized that he had found the sole piece of ostentation Miss Morgan had allowed herself ; she had been Angela Jane Morgan and the car was AJM 563 . |
| 2 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 3 | He had not merely failed to interest her in a story , he had found the only thing he had to sell was worthless and he urgently needed money . |
| 4 | Accident investigators have found the black box flight recorder . |
| 5 | So there is a sense in which both companies and banks have found the financial system mutually beneficial . |
| 6 | However , once you have found the serial file you want , you still need to read through it to find the record you want . |
| 7 | Terry has found the general condition of the airframe to be very good ( it flew into Newark in February 1983 ) requiring ‘ the usual work ’ around the rivets . |
| 8 | But they have written to one another for ten years , hardly knowing why , and perhaps have found the greater satisfaction in it because it is a luxury , not the fulfilment of a need . |
| 9 | My brother has always found the civil service most accommodating … ’ |
| 10 | It is no wonder that Christians throughout the ages have said that by contemplating the Trinity they have found the ultimate essence , expression and exercise of happiness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Once we have found and have faith in our real selves and have found the inner confidence and inner strength we need , we shall have a reservoir of quiet certainty without making further efforts . |
| 13 | But I can assure you appropriate action will be taken when we have found the guilty party … ’ |
| 14 | The coin had found the central stem of the bolt , the rust shell was dispersed . |
| 15 | With the awful storms of late February still fresh in most people 's minds , those with four-wheel-drive cars must have found the extra traction a godsend . |
| 16 | After returning home the night before , he had lain awake for hours thinking yet again about the day five weeks before when he and Sam had found the Spanish cockboat . |
| 17 | A further way of introducing some purpose to a day 's sailing is to experiment with different ways of doing things , since you can only be sure that you have found the best way by deliberately trying different ways . |
| 18 | Alexander and Weber believe they have found the best way to establish themselves where they need to be . |
| 19 | ‘ But he wants you all to himself — and he 's found the best way to do that is to take away the pleasure you find in singing . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the police had found the abandoned car , and the wheels of the law began to turn . |
| 21 | They were on the front doorstep , or round the front doorstep , probably say on the front doorstep , trouble is they found the front doorstep on the side |
| 22 | And we 've , but only found the middle part |
| 23 | To begin with , Nuadu had not found the crimson mask particularly punishing . |
| 24 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 25 | Early this year they announced that they had found the 17 keV neutrino again , with a far greater degree of sensitivity than any previous experiment . |
| 26 | Many social scientists have found the closed world of political extremists to be an exotic topic of study . |
| 27 | In the agora was also to be found the administrative council house — the bouleuterion or senate house — of which interesting remains survive especially at Priene , Termessos and Miletos . |
| 28 | An attenuation of latent inhibition with a long interval between exposure and conditioning has not always been found , even in flavour-aversion learning — Nachman and Jones ( 1974 ) and Siegel ( 1974 ) have found the latent inhibition effect to persist in strength at intervals of much more than 3.5 h . |
| 29 | Now that you have found the optimum diet for your own body — cherish it ! |
| 30 | In such a habitat is also found the great water dock , food plant of the reserve 's most notable butterfly , the large copper . |