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Example sentences of "found [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later .
2	I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward .
3	The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat .
4	I found nothing untoward .
5	Isobel found nothing odd any more in public discussion of her breasts and the milk and the way the baby acted during feeding .
6	She was intrigued and , as her meeting with him was social , she found nothing odd about the offer of a drink .
7	Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure .
8	It was the same old-fashioned type as Miss Tuckey 's and he unscrewed the mouthpiece carefully but found nothing extra inside .
9	‘ I examined the two bottles for prints and found nothing identifiable on the hydrochloride , but on the nux vomica bottle there were fresh prints of the deceased 's left hand and on the stopper good prints of the forefinger and thumb of his right hand .
10	Peter Yeo opened his mouth to speak , and found nothing useful to say .
11	She made no objection to his strange ways , his obsessive working habits were his own business , and she found nothing repugnant in his looks , his soiled clothes .
12	By some quirk in her moral fibre , Tamar found nothing incongruous in her tempestuous affair with the groom , caring for Stephen as deeply as she did .
13	He opened cupboards and drawers , and found nothing suspicious .
14	As he expected , he found nothing incriminating , Spencer would be far too careful for that .
15	‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’
16	Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons .
17	‘ Umpires found nothing wrong ’
18	They found nothing wrong .
19	I found nothing noteworthy except on one , possibly the leader , who had a considerable amount of silver which I pocketed for distribution to the poor .
20	" Wen you investigated my son Patrick last year , you found nothing unusual about him ?
21	He searched the area , but found nothing more .
22	Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end .
23	There was a small knee-hole desk and he went through the drawers but found nothing more than discarded pens , broken pencils , old catalogues , a quantity of scrap paper , and an assortment of pins and clips .
24	He went into the whole ritual and found nothing open to the charge that it encouraged superstition .
25	Keeping well away from the edge and steeling herself against a spasm of vertigo , Melissa searched for several minutes , but found nothing further .
26	She found nothing broken and his breathing was regular .
27	Hunt , who had occasionally had to sleep in the same bed as his father , found nothing alarming in this until Minton , who had put his arm around the younger man , began moving it slowly down his chest .
28	The guidelines have been drawn up carefully by care assistants and managers who have put them into practice and found them useful themselves .
29	I have been involved in many such courses and found them useful .
30	Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later .