Example sentences of "[pron] find [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
2 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
3 | When I got there , I found to no great surprise that very little had survived in any reasonable condition . |
4 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
5 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
6 | I write now as I found at the time . |
7 | For guitars I just used the Jaguar and a Broadcaster-type thing made for , I think , Jerry Donahue , which I found at the studio . |
8 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
9 | ‘ Is the candle at Paul 's church connected with the one Julia and I found at the asylum out-house ? |
10 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
11 | Very , very quickly , can I just say , that in the er , consultat in the , in the work I did in the , which led to the production of the report , and the many , many people I talked to , some of whom I , I see around the table , I found on the one hand , ample evidence throughout the county authorities , the health authority , the district councils , and the voluntary sector , of much evidence of recognition of improved collaboration between agencies in delivery of community care in Shropshire . |
12 | Klipspringer were numerous on the cliffs at the top of the mountain , and there , above a thousand-foot precipice , I found among a mass of tumbled rocks the fresh tracks of leopard . |
13 | But I found out the way to braid leather myself . |
14 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |
15 | Security is a word I found in a dictionary . |
16 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
17 | ‘ What was in that bottle I found in the bathroom ? ’ |
18 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
19 | But I found in the city centre , that er I did enjoy working there , but it it can be a bit of a cold and unfriendly place because it 's so such a rapid pace of life . |
20 | Item 1 is an enamelled badge that I found in the garden of an old house . |
21 | ‘ But before I go I 'll have a look at the one I found in the asylum and the one Theodora got from Paul 's church . ’ |
22 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
23 | That accounts for the pinkish colour I found in the incisors of both remains . ’ |
24 | This is a dog I found in the road . |
25 | I found in the bottom can I talk to you while you 're doing that or ? |
26 | I found in the bottom of the freezer some pork that I did n't know we had . |
27 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
28 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
29 | I find at the moment there is very little I actually want to watch , that I 'm actually disillusioned , I 'm getting very little pleasure ! |
30 | I find on the evidence that the dock company would never have undertaken the venture on the basis of 12 hours per day operation . |