Example sentences of "[pron] find [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 2 | It was not long before I found I liked the Semmens family very much . |
| 3 | The room in which they found themselves ran the whole length of the house and was obviously both the formal dining-room and library . |
| 4 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 5 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |