Example sentences of "found a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs . |
| 32 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 33 | The client concerned wanted both a finance director and a managing director ; the headhunter had found a good candidate with an accountancy background to be MD , before deciding that the same man would be better in the finance director position . |
| 34 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 35 | You just have n't found a good use for it yet . ’ |
| 36 | Then when you 've all found a good combination , you do it for a while , then you turn on the tape machine … |
| 37 | If she had wanted a husband , she could not have found a good reason for refusing to marry him . |
| 38 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 39 | Many congratulated themselves on having found a new sense of purpose , a new realism : after years of drifting , of idle ebb and flow , there seemed to be a current . |
| 40 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 41 | ‘ Our Frankie had found a new friend ; guess who ? ’ |
| 42 | The schoolboy writer of nature articles had found a new purpose around which to weave his dreams of a future with his ‘ anemone maiden , . |
| 43 | These managers involved in recruitment have also found a new sphere of satisfaction as they observe the progress of the trainee volunteers whom they were involved in interviewing . |
| 44 | Lotus , being in the Anglia region , has found a new sponsor and has been able , at last , to bring out its long-awaited cheap saloon — the Flan . |
| 45 | They have found a new enthusiasm for life , a new determination to be the people they are and behave as they will . |
| 46 | But the teams later discovered that the conduit was dry , suggesting that the lava had already found a new course . |
| 47 | Dexter guessed that she had found a new man . |
| 48 | The former Benedictine monastery of St George has found a new life as a museum and is well worth visiting . |
| 49 | They know that , but perhaps one well-known American maker of tape — magnetic and adhesive — has found a new ploy . |
| 50 | REDLAND , the brick and tile company making a hostile bid for Steetley , has found a new platform for its offensive a development in Devon which uses bricks from both companies . |
| 51 | At first glance , it seems hardly necessary to make another film about Van Gogh ; but Maurice Pialat , who began his career in the late 1960s , has found a new approach by showing the artist not as a great figure of his times but as a tormented , talented painter living in a village among ordinary folk . |
| 52 | HE HAD found a new publisher and his second novel was out . |
| 53 | It has found a new publisher in the American corporation Elegant Logic which is at present attempting to gain a foothold in the Russian market . |
| 54 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 55 | Although he has found a new cutting edge to his game , after managing just five goals in his previous 104 league games , it is as a creator that Alex Ferguson most cherishes him . |
| 56 | WILEY Arfur Daley reckons he 's found a new way to score against the police — by taking them on at soccer . |
| 57 | TV 'S Bread stars Jean Boht and Jonathon Morris have found a new way of earning a crust — on stage together . |
| 58 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture . |
| 59 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 60 | Doctors claim they 've found a new way of treating breast cancer which could save thousands of lives . |