Example sentences of "and found a " in BNC.
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1 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
2 | She opened another door and found a proper farmhouse kitchen , large and homely , with quarry tiled floor , scrubbed table and four chairs . |
3 | ‘ Shortly after it returned , Pete was rolling around on the carpet and found a titbit , ’ Andrew explained . |
4 | Bothered about Joan 's health and the overspaciousness of the house , they searched and found a little terraced house almost opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum . |
5 | One day we were poking around in some sodden ashes by the rear exit and found a few slivers of celluloid with images on them . |
6 | The manager was patrolling the aisles and found a pair of lady 's panties on the floor by the back stalls . |
7 | He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford , which they shared with another couple and their children . |
8 | We had tenants in the house and one day he went missing upstairs and found a bag of lipstick , eye-liner and face powder , and decided it would be a good idea to plaster his face with it . |
9 | Like the Royal Navy , the RAF sought and found a gap in the Sandys doctrine , and it was the Army 's requirements that again provided the case . |
10 | She found Christian friends and found a Cause more wonderful to die for . |
11 | Eventually Anthony took the pad away and found a few albino strands growing behind . |
12 | She touched the jellied space in her mouth and found a drop of blood like a shiny ladybird resting on her finger . |
13 | He reached over and found a table for his own cup . |
14 | He belonged to that alliance of the professions , the remnants of old money and a smattering of intellectuals which had a romantic view of the working man and found a sympathetic ear in the leadership of more conservative trade unions . |
15 | WHEN a Charlton chief sat down to dinner in times gone by and found a spur on the table where his meal should have been , he knew the cupboard was bare once . |
16 | John Mellancamp Though thrust on a disdainful market in the mid-'70s as the posturing rock rebel Johnny Cougar , this talented songwriter has subsequently reverted to his real name and found a niche as an accomplished performer and composer of Mid-Western adult rock songs . |
17 | By the time she came back Sylvia had moved her desk and found a new best friend . |
18 | He lit the hurricane lamps set in brass wall-brackets and found a pressure lamp for the dining table . |
19 | In this respect Marshall , too , was confusing since he made no explicit distinction between those civil rights which are to do with citizenship — freedom of expression and association for example — and those which are to do with protecting the citizen from the state or the community — the freedom to marry and found a family , a right to privacy for instance . |
20 | Such a measure would also protect the position of the private individual , since the Convention gives rights to privacy , to marry and found a family , to practice religion . |
21 | Macijauskas undertook a planned tour of villages in 1968 and found a subject close to his heart . |
22 | They ran across the lawn and found a rabbit path through the light undergrowth between the red-barked pines . |
23 | He walked up to the green and found a spot to land on . |
24 | The customs officers were very understanding and found a mirror and propped it up on the customs bench for her . |
25 | He complained that according to English Law he could not marry a woman , and that thus he was denied the right to marry and found a family . |
26 | She had lost three quarters of a stone in weight and found a waist , which encouraged her considerably . |
27 | The idea gradually built up ; David Wood , the children 's writer , wrote the script ; we went and found a company , and gradually put the thing ( Chip 's Comic ) together . |
28 | Travelling by train I landed in the centre of Los Angeles and found a room in a small hotel off Pershing Square . |
29 | We could see the village of Ibsley off to our right so down a side road we trudged and found a cycle repairer — almost every village had one . |
30 | A. M. I went into Lime Street one night at ten o'clock and found a crowd of lads on the corner of Skelhorne Street coming out of the pub . |