Example sentences of "found [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They found you in the snow and they carried you to the nearest shelter . |
| 13 | The helicopter found her in the vicinity of Kammies . |
| 14 | Then one day , before breakfast , I found her in the sitting room , and no longer had to rely on hearsay . |
| 15 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 16 | He found her in the parlour , doing nothing , seated with her pale skirts spread about her . |
| 17 | I found her in the fog . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | I found her in the back kitchen , standing over the chef who was rolling out pastry . |
| 20 | In the morning , Punch brought a letter from Trelorne , whose contents Aunt Emily did not reveal , but Alexandra found her in the drawing-room after luncheon . |
| 21 | They found her in the lavender field With her flowers as her final shield . |
| 22 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 23 | Easter Day 1945 found him in the darkness of a cattle truck in a German railway tunnel ; there was a true resurrection moment when prisoners were allowed out in to the sunshine and flowers of the railway cutting . |
| 24 | The 18th found him in the custody of two Maidenhead cavalry officers who took him back to Reading . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
| 26 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 27 | She flew around , looking for Prince William , found him in the kitchen , grabbed his arm and ran off through a side door . |
| 28 | He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes . |
| 29 | ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house . |
| 30 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |