Example sentences of "find [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 2 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 3 | Maybe someone bold enough to improvise like that would even take the risk of getting himself really knocked out and dropped in the water , knowing I could n't fail to find him in a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Attempts to find him by a local Hezbollah cell had failed . |
| 5 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 6 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 7 | That weekend found him in a sunny mood . |
| 8 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 9 | With a stifled groan that for some reason moved her deeply , his lips found hers with a sweet fire that seemed to sear her very soul . |
| 10 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 11 | on a , on how I find you at a particular time . |
| 12 | It finds her in a maximum security prison on a far-off planet . |
| 13 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 14 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 15 | Town rallied and had a good effort from Kenny Campbell , well saved by keeper , Andy Hopping , after Roger Charles had found him with a great cross , but Harefield went in at half time with a deserved one nil lead . |
| 16 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 17 | We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own . |
| 18 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 19 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 20 | Both are as entitled as any other separating couple to find happiness , though it is hard to see how they will find it with a new partner while remaining married to each other . |
| 21 | If what you want is to peruse a publication like Big Women , you 'll find it in a discreet magazine rack in a corner of the Smoking Room . |