Example sentences of "found it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 2 | Someone 's phoned in to say they found it on the grass . |
| 3 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 4 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 5 | He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk . |
| 6 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 7 | We found it on the ice outside the North Bastion tower , yet you said you were in the city all night . ’ |
| 8 | They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above . |
| 9 | We found it on the back . |
| 10 | you found it on the bus did n't ya ? |
| 11 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 12 | and then er they they found it at the polic , the police station |
| 13 | But young Morton found it among the dead cases , all the same . ’ |
| 14 | we found it among the hollyhocks , a new life |
| 15 | ‘ I found it in the kitchen cupboard . |
| 16 | ‘ Dorothy found it in the garden a few weeks ago . |
| 17 | Lord Cardigan found it in the Balkans where proper roads petered out and pot-hole dodging enlivened the journey . |
| 18 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 19 | Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) . |
| 20 | He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit ’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King ’ had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity ’ . |
| 21 | Farwaggi found it in the Herald Tribune . |
| 22 | I mean I found it in the past , you know any infection what so ever just knocks you for six . |
| 23 | Arriving home at half past twelve at night , Rachaela found it in the downstairs hall , another tenant had obviously taken it in . |
| 24 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
| 25 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
| 26 | I found it in the TV room . |
| 27 | I found it in the kitchen — empty . |
| 28 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |
| 29 | I found it in the armoury and hid it . |
| 30 | I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ? |