Example sentences of "found a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arrival I found a young man from the GLC equipped with a magic lantern , slides , wall plans and all other relevant data . |
| 2 | Now he found a young man from a few doors away was home on leave from the Royal Engineers and spent some of his leave with him and some visiting relations , as men on leave were expected to do . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the servants found a young piglet , throat slashed from ear to ear , on a heap of refuse at the back of the kitchen . |
| 4 | At last I found a young doctor who gave me a curious look , but I begged him to examine Rachel , which he did , and then looked up and said , ‘ My dear lady , your daughter has bubonic plague ! ’ |
| 5 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 6 | Eventually , I found a young hospital registrar who said , not entirely as a joke : ‘ I expect we 'll find a cupboard for her ’ . |
| 7 | He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford , which they shared with another couple and their children . |
| 8 | When patrolling policemen checked the pub they found a rear window smashed and could hear Joyce and another man inside . |
| 9 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 10 | A few months later a man living in Herne Bay in Kent found a live earthworm in his garden after a rainstorm . |
| 11 | The researchers found a wide variation in " Patois competence " , with scores ranging from 8 to 20 ( p. 96 ) . |
| 12 | Similarly Gilleard , 1984 found a wide range of disabilities in Scottish samples of dementia sufferers and their carers . |
| 13 | Merrill Lynch 's Second Annual Study of Employee Relocation Policies Among Major UK Companies found a wide range of estimates of the cost of relocating employees . |
| 14 | There was virtually universal acceptance of the proposal to include core skills in the new qualifications , although we found a wide diversity of views as to how they should be incorporated . |
| 15 | The fact that Gardner et al found a dose-response relation between fathers ' preconceptual external exposure to penetrating ionising radiation and childhood leukaemia and we did not could be because the cumulative dose was a marker of exposure to some hazardous substance or substances at Sellafield but not elsewhere . |
| 16 | Olivia wrote to tell me that Ivy came back ( having found , at last , a suitable flat ) and found a penitent Polonaise willing for her to stay : ‘ at a great price , but less than the South Americans ’ . |
| 17 | COUNCIL workmen found a booby-trapped caravan yesterday on a site they were clearing after a court battle . |
| 18 | Inside the man-made cavern , located 100ft up the side of a cliff , an archaeological survey team found a hastily-written message recording that ‘ Joezer ( the priest ) has just been killed ( or wounded ) . |
| 19 | Without any experience of that industry he found a useful partner in Thomas Gray , the manager of a small ironworks at Coatbridge , with whom in 1861 he formed the business of Colville & Gray . |
| 20 | Fozard et al found a weak association between colon cancer and distant dysplasia . |
| 21 | Mortimer found a junior lieutenant and began issuing orders to have his maps of the island , tactical notes , and sundry other items brought in . |
| 22 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 23 | She found a used tram ticket to Holborn in one and a little hanky scrumpled up in the bottom of the other . |
| 24 | But he was recaptured yet again and this time transferred to Colditz , which he found a fascinating meeting place of a wide range of backgrounds and nationalities . |
| 25 | The energy committee found a serious lack of co-ordination between government departments . |
| 26 | In our study group of 18 patients who had endoscopically confirmed reflux oesophagitis , we found a total reflux time ranging from 3.2% to 32.6% in the absence of treatment ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 27 | Using data from 1,000 1988 annual reports , the survey found a close correlation between industry performance and pay increases . |
| 28 | In the book I found a Spanish proverb that runs , No se ganó Zamora en una hora — ‘ Zamora is n't reached in an hour ’ , which is the equivalent of our ‘ Rome was n't built in a day ’ . |
| 29 | Rummaging around on the bench , she finally found a long chisel which , she decided , would have to do . |
| 30 | They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed . |