Example sentences of "[noun] found [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Pascoe found her a great deal of help in restoring his rather worn manly pride . |
| 2 | Visitors found it a lovely house , full of air and hospitality . |
| 3 | The guard found him an empty compartment and locked the door . |
| 4 | PS : Blandly found us an excellent man to be captain , and Silver found a man called Arrow to be first officer . |
| 5 | Jane found her an exhausting girl ( she was twenty-six ) and yet she was sorry for her . |
| 6 | Emmie found it a dreadful sound . |
| 7 | Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable . |
| 8 | As well as admiring Modigliani 's talent , Zborowski found him a romantic figure , living a life he would have liked to lead . |
| 9 | The father found him a ready substitute for his own dead infant son , Philip , and often called the young writer ‘ Phil ’ . |
| 10 | But Mr Sandy found it a stimulating , not to say exhausting , tour of duty . |
| 11 | ( A sentimental view if one contrasts it with Nina Hamnett 's , who said that most people found him an awful nuisance . ) |
| 12 | As she increasingly became a historical figure herself , people found her a fascinating source of history for the inter-war period . |
| 13 | Eventually , John summoned up courage to ask permission to use different music : Ravel 's two-handed piano concerto in G. Presumably he was happier working with that , but few people found it an apt choice for the subject of the ballet , about a witch who destroys her lover . |
| 14 | It was an admirable venture and most of the Girls found it an exciting place to stay . |
| 15 | Most respondents found it a useful medium for aiding some cosmetic task or other . |
| 16 | The professionals found it a tough test , with Wirral 's Andy Mitchell returning the only sub par round in the 36-hole event . |
| 17 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 18 | So , when Caine told Peter Langan that he was interested in setting up a British restaurant along the lines of La Coupole , Langan found it an irresistible proposition . |
| 19 | First , because of membership of the EMS , wage-bargainers and price-setters in other countries may take particular notice of the DM exchange rate and inflationary trends ( if any ) in the Federal Republic ; second , over a period of time , wage and price responses in other countries might evolve towards the German norm ; third , it may simply be that in a period when for fundamental social and political reasons the control of inflation came to assume dominance in policy-making , policy-makers found it a useful discipline to conduct their fiscal and monetary affairs in such a way as to stabilise the exchange rate against the DM . |
| 20 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
| 21 | The tutor found her an old block from a ruined church and brought it to the house . |
| 22 | Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay . |
| 23 | The older women found it a terrible strain . |
| 24 | Those who worked for ‘ Laura Ashley ’ at this time found it a mixed experience . |
| 25 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 26 | The dealer found him a difficult artist to deal with . |
| 27 | during its limited period of service with the RAF , most aircrew who flew the B–29 found it an enjoyable experience ; a good stepping stone into the age of the jet bomber . |