Example sentences of "found [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 2 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 3 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 4 | Mrs Lennox found them a pail and a large enamel container . |
| 5 | Schofield found them a rehearsal room at Middleton Cricket Club where his father was on the committee . |
| 6 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 7 | They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains . |
| 8 | But in the 1950s , with the first wave of postwar affluence , young people in transition began to have money and the adman found them a place in the consumer society . |
| 9 | My wide feet found them a bit tight , but I swapped the footbeds for the Sanmarco ones , which are much thinner , and both pairs then fitted me better — a leaf taken from Merrell 's book . |
| 10 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 11 | He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike . |
| 12 | Actually I found them a lot more convenient than |
| 13 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 14 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 15 | The Swindon win over Bournemouth found them the performance of the week award . |
| 16 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 17 | I had and have the distinct impression that my mother found me a nuisance . |
| 18 | She found me a towel upstairs . |
| 19 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 20 | but found me an old yapp album , |
| 21 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 22 | They found 'er a place near 'er daughter in Kent somewhere . ’ |
| 23 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 24 | Denis found himself a little abashed , and rose to cover his embarrassment . |
| 25 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 26 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 27 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 28 | For a second time du Guesclin found himself a prisoner of the English , who routed his army . |
| 29 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 30 | After the war ended he found himself a completely free agent , suddenly removed from the safety of neutral Switzerland ; he was shaken , disturbed ; his true self was born . |