Example sentences of "found [pron] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later . |
| 2 | She was intrigued and , as her meeting with him was social , she found nothing odd about the offer of a drink . |
| 3 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 4 | ‘ I examined the two bottles for prints and found nothing identifiable on the hydrochloride , but on the nux vomica bottle there were fresh prints of the deceased 's left hand and on the stopper good prints of the forefinger and thumb of his right hand . |
| 5 | She made no objection to his strange ways , his obsessive working habits were his own business , and she found nothing repugnant in his looks , his soiled clothes . |
| 6 | By some quirk in her moral fibre , Tamar found nothing incongruous in her tempestuous affair with the groom , caring for Stephen as deeply as she did . |
| 7 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
| 8 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 9 | " Wen you investigated my son Patrick last year , you found nothing unusual about him ? |
| 10 | He went into the whole ritual and found nothing open to the charge that it encouraged superstition . |
| 11 | Hunt , who had occasionally had to sleep in the same bed as his father , found nothing alarming in this until Minton , who had put his arm around the younger man , began moving it slowly down his chest . |
| 12 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 13 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 14 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 15 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 16 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 17 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 18 | I found them perfect for mixing up warmer greens . |
| 19 | He has measured noble gases trapped within the meteorites and found them similar in composition to the Martian atmosphere analysed by NASA 's Viking landers . |
| 20 | Through the centuries politicians , protestors and agitators of every sort found them invaluable for smiting the public eye ; and , in their most debased form , they were used by such printers as James Catnach ( 1792–1841 ) of the Seven Dials , London , to convey to sensation seekers scaffold speeches by murderers and other criminals , often before the rogues had uttered a word or given any sign that they intended to . |
| 21 | In October 1991 , she was asked to examine the three sisters and found them healthy in appearance and co-operative . |
| 22 | Then further on you found them high in the trees where the water had swept them . |
| 23 | The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives . |
| 24 | Indubitably it was full of madmen , and women too , much as she found them fun to be with . |
| 25 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 26 | Mr Mellor said : ‘ We found ourselves devoid of water and unable to bath or do anything . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If you found someone such as I have just described it would let you off the hook . ’ |
| 28 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 29 | A drink was pressed into his hand , a chair held back and he found himself seated opposite Cornelius by the window , for all the world like some sixth-former seeking advice on whether to go for Oxbridge or the Guards . |
| 30 | Increasingly , he found himself estranged from Laura , who , in the subsequent eleven years , ‘ never once asked me how things were going . |