Example sentences of "found it [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table .
2 We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport .
3 Would you believe I found it on a stall in the flea market only last week ? ’
4 ‘ He found it on a table in my father 's chamber , ’ she announced .
5 ‘ I found it in a street in London . ’
6 As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine .
7 In searching for an effective way of restraining wider areas , the German traffic planners again looked abroad for inspiration and again they found it in a near-neighbour .
8 I found it in a pawn shop and I was n't sure what it was , but I bought it for about 20 dollars .
9 Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’
10 The tale of Simon the Athenian appears in Samuel Sharp 's History of Stamford of 1847 , where he says he found it in a ‘ quaint old black-letter record ’ .
11 Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays .
12 As it happened I too found it in a list of drives the day after answering the letter .
13 He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ .
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