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 | She found the burning rod and tasted its length , the swarthy towerhead , like a smooth-skinned fruit swollen with juice . |
| 12 | Even they , though , found the battering-ram principle too convenient yet unproductive . |
| 13 | Officers and firemen found the blazing vehicle finally at a halt , with the crew desperately trying to rescue equipment . |
| 14 | I found the total silence at a depth of six metres interrupted only by the sound of my breathing quite eerie . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The peers on the whole accepted these assumptions , though many found the explicit recognition of the situation hard to bear . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In 1968 Fields and Stanbury updated Break 's UK study and found the net disincentive effect to have grown to 8% of the population . |
| 19 | He found the young man witty , intelligent and obviously devoted to Alice . |
| 20 | I found the young man In the kitchen . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That night , Jessica Roberts found the ritual element she had always accepted in her high home life hard to bear . |
| 23 | When police caught up with him , they found the 27-year-old living in two realities . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I found the wide head difficult to use as it did n't fit the contours of my skin . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Many Palestinians found the Muslim revival shocking . |
| 28 | When they checked the tags on their baby , they found the correct surname on its wrist but the wrong one on her ankle . |
| 29 | Since then he had run a foreign policy unit in Moscow , and had helped found the Democratic Reform Movement , which had attempted to unite democratic groups in opposition to the Communist Party [ see p. 38347 ] . |
| 30 | River police and firemen were called to the scene after being alerted by a passing cyclist and found the unnamed man on the rocks . |