Example sentences of "found [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While her handwriting was clear and she read fluently , Diana found the scholarly side rather confusing . |
| 2 | But at the end of 1990 the group was reorganised and Mr Wise was less happy with the outcome : ‘ I found the general direction in which the group was going did n't really satisfy me in terms of long-term interests or challenge , so I decided to bite the bullet . ’ |
| 3 | A leading article in The Times found the general approach tentative , but did not offer any criticism on those grounds . |
| 4 | I ran back and forth across the street until I found the dirty door . |
| 5 | South African students found the fast-approaching World Cup a strong enough incentive to sort out their differences and achieve unity in a short span of time . |
| 6 | The survey monitored 1,100 Welsh homes and found the average level to be 20 becquerels per cubic metre , the same as the UK as a whole . |
| 7 | Robin found the average milk-yield for the area was about 33kg per cow daily . |
| 8 | The survey of seven airlines found the average age of pilots when they died was 61 . |
| 9 | When Richard Baxter returned to Kidderminster in 1647 he found the Civil War had brought about some changes which were helpful to his ministry . |
| 10 | Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun . |
| 11 | Government heads driving to the Nicocea opening found the fifty mile route lined with women , hands linked in protest at the world 's and especially Britain 's failure to reverse the nineteen seventy four invasion which has left thirty seven percent of the island in Turkish hands . |
| 12 | She found the burning rod and tasted its length , the swarthy towerhead , like a smooth-skinned fruit swollen with juice . |
| 13 | Even they , though , found the battering-ram principle too convenient yet unproductive . |
| 14 | Officers and firemen found the blazing vehicle finally at a halt , with the crew desperately trying to rescue equipment . |
| 15 | I found the total silence at a depth of six metres interrupted only by the sound of my breathing quite eerie . |
| 16 | The Gallup survey , carried out for Realeat , part of the Haldane Foods Group , found the total number of people who avoided red meat , including vegetarians , vegans and those who still ate chicken or fish , totalled six million or 11pc of the population . |
| 17 | The peers on the whole accepted these assumptions , though many found the explicit recognition of the situation hard to bear . " |
| 18 | In The Person and Place of Jesus Christ ( 1909 ) , a book often regarded as his best , he found the two-nature doctrine of Christ deficient , inclining to the kenotic theory , which he modified by thinking of a ‘ pleroma ’ following the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus . |
| 19 | In 1968 Fields and Stanbury updated Break 's UK study and found the net disincentive effect to have grown to 8% of the population . |
| 20 | He found the young man witty , intelligent and obviously devoted to Alice . |
| 21 | I found the young man In the kitchen . |
| 22 | Rajmapata found the best surface up the far rail in the Carrie Red Fillies Nursery , Flight Lieutenant got up to beat Roberty Lea in the Harcros Timber & Building Supplies Stayers Final , and Tickerty 's Gift collected the Cowies PLC Limited Stakes . |
| 23 | On this field I found the best combination was to set the Silver Sabre at minimum discrimination and maximum sensitivity . |
| 24 | Was it up here above Aurillac that one of our party found the best picnic place in France ? |
| 25 | This , then , was the Jamaican norm , and when I came to Britain , which was still in the throes of the ‘ Swinging Sixties ’ , I found the comparative indiscipline in schools difficult to cope with . |
| 26 | That night , Jessica Roberts found the ritual element she had always accepted in her high home life hard to bear . |
| 27 | When police caught up with him , they found the 27-year-old living in two realities . |
| 28 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I found the wide head difficult to use as it did n't fit the contours of my skin . |
| 30 | And this was not simply because she wished to be above reproach : it was also because , nearing her time , she found the eight-year-old boy exhausting . |