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 ’ . |