Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have found a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I wanted to convince her that I had found a replacement for her and she was wasting her time in trying to fan burned-out ashes to life . ’ |
| 3 | As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 . |
| 4 | ‘ If you think that you have found a boy or girl with talent , tell us at the Lawn Tennis Association ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you telling us that you have found a way of teaching animals to talk ? ’ |
| 6 | Let us also suppose that you have found a hypnotherapist who is both reputable and someone with whom you feel compatible ( see p.23 ) . |
| 7 | Let us imagine that you have found a hypnotist who is honest . |
| 8 | Assuming that you have found a place , and that you are both satisfied ; has your aunt a key to your door ? |
| 9 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 10 | This profession , which most members had come to brimming with conviction that they had found a way of linking their idealism to an honourable way of earning a living , has been devastated by continuous attack from the media . |
| 11 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 12 | ‘ The forensic people told us that they had found a trace of paper in his nostrils . |
| 13 | In 1990 , to great excitement , Kenneth Blum of the University of Texas at San Antonio , and Ernest Noble of the University of California , Los Angeles , announced that they had found a gene peculiarly common among alcoholics . |
| 14 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 15 | Dr David Parker 's group at Durham University believe that they have found a way round the problem . |
| 16 | It may be that they have found a way to train humans . |
| 17 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 18 | ‘ No ! ’ she shrieked , and managed a half-turn away from him , then discovered that he had found a way of keeping her exactly where he wanted her . |
| 19 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
| 20 | It was that he had found a place in which to discover that there was of course , of course , no such Being at all . |
| 21 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |