Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 2 | Here biblical images of ‘ rebellion ’ and ‘ holy war ’ were fused with recent experiences of anti-slavery and republican struggle to forge a discourse of political representation for women — the enslaved women who had found a voice , a point of identification in one of themselves . |
| 3 | For the little boy who had found a family could not begin to understand the anguish he had unwittingly caused to the family who had lost a little boy … |
| 4 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 5 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 6 | Just who was this attractive fifty-year-old woman with the warm brown eyes who had found a place in Dad 's heart so quickly ? |
| 7 | ( 210 ) But a handsome butcher , who had found a place beside her , held that she was entitled to the post of honour in the front row , and bade her not be frightened . |