Example sentences of "they found a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 2 | When the runners , who included several international competitors , arrived at the crossing at Strensall , near York , they found a single policeman calling them to a halt . |
| 3 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 4 | In Symbolist poetry and primitive life , they found a sort of rapturous vision where living and dead appeared to unite . |
| 5 | Rough seas hit boat fishing off Walney Island and Barrow anglers unable to get out anywhere except in the Roa Channel where they found a few small codling and dabs . |
| 6 | Coming to the parish church at Taddington , they found a notice to say that the Blessed Sacrament was reserved there and should be treated with ‘ special reverence ’ . |
| 7 | Years later Emma Upcher wrote of her parents , ‘ They found a spot they thought a paradise and there they began to build their ‘ bower' ’ . ' |
| 8 | At a 12-hour meeting that ended early on March 21st , they found a compromise . |
| 9 | When the participants finally reached the multi-storey car park , they found a pleasant white-walled entrance hall with a blue muslin ceiling , nicely decorated with flags and Party symbols and brightly lit . |
| 10 | They found a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 11 | they found a room large enough in a dark part of Nightside and after clearing out the bugs , milkcrates , music stands and rusty oil drums , used it as a workshop . |
| 12 | On that floor they found a variety of soft drinks , and took some bottles of lemonade , soda water and Irn Bru , and also half a bottle of Gordon 's gin . |
| 13 | There they found a tanker and stand-pipe , also a stall where bread was being doled out . |
| 14 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 15 | When researchers analysed the air in the tower , they found a sulphur oxyfluoride , SO2F2 . |
| 16 | On a table in the living room they found a letter addressed to me . |
| 17 | The mystery was solved when the Allies captured Radio Luxembourg in 1944 , where they found a new type of magnetic tape recorder combining the two inventions already mentioned . |
| 18 | At the scene of the offence they found a Renault , a Peugeot and a Toyota car , each with a smashed window . |
| 19 | Just around the corner from Sion House they found a narrow five-story terraced house built in the 1840s but impeccably Georgian in every other respect . |
| 20 | They found a high degree of positive relationship between areas of faulting and abnormal meteorological events , including UFO activity . |
| 21 | They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow . |
| 22 | Eventually they found a spot , away from the track but on the edge of one of the many glades in the forest . |
| 23 | After a short search they found a half brick made of concrete and went over to the water through . |
| 24 | They found a new billet in a working-class household . |
| 25 | When the first people left for the fields in the morning they found a dead dog on the path . |
| 26 | We called friends in Australia and amazingly , they found a cylinder we could rent and shipped it to Darwin . |
| 27 | In the locked glove compartment they found a £3,137.33 Access bill . |
| 28 | But then they found a rich seam of form , thanks to renewed goal power , which narrowly failed to earn European qualification . |
| 29 | ‘ If they found a point they wished to query us on we had to give an instant , pressurised response , ’ he said . |
| 30 | It was some time after the crowds stormed the Presidential Palace compound in northern Bucharest in the late morning of 22 December 1989 that they found a confused old lady in a bungalow in the grounds . |