Example sentences of "found [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Sheriff and his men approached the brothers at Winchelsea , they found them in a state of drunken revelry . |
| 2 | ‘ I found them in a book and I took them . |
| 3 | He found them in a mess of vomit . |
| 4 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 5 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 6 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 7 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 8 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 9 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 10 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 11 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 12 | His beloved father , Jack , had no especial love for cricket , although later on young John would delight in a recollection that when cricket began to seek better playing surfaces it found them in the graveyards . |
| 13 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 14 | Her boyfriend found them in the back of his van , abandoned by someone months or years before their discovery , and they have collected chocolate stains from half eaten Minstrels and white smears from Quaker oats . |
| 15 | We found them in the stables , tending to the horses ; country lads whose constant talk was of saddles , bridles , reins and spurs ; what was good horseflesh and what was n't ; what horses should be fed and when they could drink . |
| 16 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 17 | I found them in an old file . |
| 18 | Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace . |
| 19 | They found you in the snow and they carried you to the nearest shelter . |
| 20 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 21 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 22 | Of course , it ai n't my business who she is and what she 's doin' here , you probably found her in a gypsy caravan outside Spurgeon 's Tabernacle and brought her here while me back was turned . |
| 23 | A fine fool she 'd look if Silas returned and found her in a state of emotional upset . |
| 24 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 25 | The helicopter found her in the vicinity of Kammies . |
| 26 | Then one day , before breakfast , I found her in the sitting room , and no longer had to rely on hearsay . |
| 27 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 28 | He found her in the parlour , doing nothing , seated with her pale skirts spread about her . |
| 29 | I found her in the fog . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I found her in the fog with a sprained ankle and no home or family , ’ said Joe , ‘ so I brought her here to help her get on her feet in all ways . |