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

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1 I just found it on three
2 What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ?
3 I , I found it with utmost ease .
4 I found it under this
5 He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground .
6 The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too .
7 Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition .
8 HE LOOKED for the second picture , found it in one glance , and the blood shot hot to his heart .
9 Er I du n no , I just found it in one of my
10 Alcock found it within one minute of starting his regular binocular search of the sky , after nine nights of cloud .
11 She found it within five minutes .
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