Example sentences of "[verb] found a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw .
2 No-one yet has found a way to halt the ageing process , and until that miracle cream is created and becomes available at the corner shop , the rules for saving your skin are simple :
3 Similarly , Famlio has found a way to make a profit form Vadinamia .
4 Now , one group working at DESY believes it has found a way to differentiate the effects of the gluon from those of the quarks produced in electron-positron collisions .
5 Well Spear & Jackson has found a way to solve that problem — by colour coding its range of screwdrivers .
6 With this growing experience he has found a means to fight more effectively for social justice and the needs of his fellow-workers .
7 Eventually , she 'd found a way to endure her moments spent on stage .
8 She was n't broke — she 'd found a job selling cosmetics at Macy 's , just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan .
9 I 'd found a movie to go to , at an off-centre commons .
10 He found it difficult to talk ; having found a bottle containing tincture of iodine in the First Aid box , he held a saturated plug of cotton wool against his raging tooth .
11 Edward Lear , too , would have felt at home in Bletchley 's realm of Complete Nonsense ; and he would even have found a friend called Foss .
12 But armed forces are not known for being bastions of sentiment and it is definitely true that had the SAAF really needed to replace both types , it would have found a way to do so .
13 Perhaps there was hope , perhaps all was not harsh antipathy , perhaps a better daughter might have found a way to soften such a mother .
14 After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it .
15 Police are understood to have found a knife embedded in the body of Derek Clazie , 25 , of Tweedmouth , in Berwick , who was discovered unconscious in a pool of blood on the Highcliffe Estate in Spittal .
16 They believe they 've found a way to destroy cancer cells without the unpleasant side-effects produced by existing drugs .
17 I 've found a will to fight .
18 ( 4 ) He explicitly introduced the fact that the committing justices had found a case to answer whereby the jury may have been influenced adversely to the appellant .
19 I half-hoped , half-dreaded the mast would go up in sparks and a bang when the Big Man pulled the lever ; that FAKINTIL had found a way to wrap half a dozen shearing charges around the legs .
20 He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world .
21 Davy had found a way to burn a candle in a methane-rich atmosphere .
22 Within moments , Alison had found a pretext to excuse herself .
23 I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it .
24 I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire .
25 A bailiff had found a pig wandering where it should n't and , according to city regulations , had promptly cut the animal 's throat .
26 As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out , he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him .
27 He and Ollie and Mac made a good team , playing at various Underground stations all that autumn and winter until Mac left because he had found a place to live up north and they took Peter on .
28 He could see red uniforms further up the river bank , evidence that the Lancers had found a place to cross .
29 Fox had found a bullet bedded in the ground and a cartridge case to go with it .
30 SCIENTISTS have found a way to put ripe pineapples ‘ to sleep ’ so they are ready for eating when they go on sale .
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