Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] find the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a few occasions Frankie had found the courage to scale the perimeter wall to look for rats in the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 2 | After a night-long blizzard the villagers of Munding woke to find the water-meadows glittering and still , the ford across the lane crusted over . |
| 3 | Sandison turned to find the only other customer in the bar now standing next to him . |
| 4 | However , a strong cup tradition backed up by five Monmouthshire titles in seven years and 18 Ben Francis Cup wins counted for nothing as Blaina struggled to find the consistency necessary to mount a successful promotion campaign . |
| 5 | ‘ He fled in that terror , ’ said Cadfael , ‘ and the next he heard was that Tutilo had found the man dead , and so reported him . |
| 6 | Sharpe orders , so , when Sharpe had found the dog in peacetime , he had decided to return the compliment . |
| 7 | Dr Dobelle had found the whole experience so extraordinary that he had issued a press release ( no less ) recounting the adventure , and had sent copies to William from his office in Farmington , New York . |
| 8 | Nigel had found the pass book , but Gina tore it from his hands before he could see how much was in her account . |
| 9 | The letters of the machine used for it had been brushed clean and the worn ribbon replaced at some time after the letter was typed , but all the other characteristics including misalignment of the ‘ d ’ and the unreliable shift control — had shown up in the enlargement and eventually confirmed that Wickham had found the machine he was seeking . |
| 10 | ‘ According to the ancient Greeks , when Zeus wanted to find the centre of the earth , he released one eagle to fly eastwards and another westwards . |
| 11 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 12 | After his death Mona had found the keys on the floor in the secretary 's room and given them to Maureen . |
| 13 | The Black Arks made landfall in the bleak north of the New World , near where Malekith had found the Circlet of Iron . |
| 14 | She could see that Paul Franklin had found the whole affair beneath him . |
| 15 | Mr Malik seemed to find the lack of political correctness in this remark reassuring . |
| 16 | Willie turned to find the Fletchers with two of their sons moving into their pew . |
| 17 | Loretta looked around curiously , taking in the shelves of books , the beautiful — and obviously valuable — antique furniture , and the magnificent kneehole desk on which Geoffrey had found the lamp . |
| 18 | After returning home the night before , he had lain awake for hours thinking yet again about the day five weeks before when he and Sam had found the Spanish cockboat . |
| 19 | However , the paper in which Palmer had found the news had an explanation of its own , namely that helium formed in the early Universe , and trapped inside a new born Earth four billion years ago , is being released in volcanic plumes . |
| 20 | Theodora had found the spare vestry key , neatly labelled , in the top right-hand drawer of Charles Julian 's desk . |
| 21 | Fortunately there is , for the county of Dorset ( in which Reaney had found the name Forshay in a fifteenth-century deed ) , a mammoth ‘ History ’ by an eighteenth-century cleric , the Reverend John Hutchins . |
| 22 | Next morning , Juliet woke to find the sun smiling cautiously between the trees . |
| 23 | Lowell happened to find the original photograph — somewhere in the cottage , I believe . |
| 24 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 25 | But here at Lord 's in 1992 , Pakistan 's first three were shot out for ducks , the scoreboard showing 18 for 3 after Chris Lewis had found the bat 's fatal edge three times while Sohail bravely carved and thumped 16 runs . |
| 26 | I bit back my questions as Mandeville began to list what he wished to see the following morning : Arthur 's tomb ; the manuscript in which Hopkins had found the riddle ; and any other matter the reverend Abbot and Brother Eadred thought might assist us in our search . |
| 27 | Sir George appeared to find the reading more than satisfactory . |
| 28 | Instead , she had pushed the memories into a dark cupboard in the very farthest corner of her mind , and she had thought they were safely locked away , only now Julius had found the key and he was opening the cupboard . |
| 29 | Once Balboa had found the Ocean , so in their droves the explorers emerged to circle , probe and colonize it , but first — in that most daring of all endeavours — to cross it . |
| 30 | For the first time no thin rubber insulation had kept them ultimately apart , and Mr Berkley had found the experience oddly moving and disturbing . |