Example sentences of "they had find a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact once submerged they had to find a red rod and drag themselves along it to the other side of the stage ; more than one mother screamed in fear when she saw the show . |
| 2 | They had found a small restaurant away from the theatre circuit where there was no chance of bumping into Gesner . |
| 3 | They had found a small table tucked in between three long ones , and had already been given a jug of iced water , a long loaf , a pot of butter and a plate of olives . |
| 4 | They drove towards Ashdown Forest , and even before they had found a suitable place to stop , Charlotte had begun to recount the events of the past week in such detail that it was obvious she was holding nothing back . |
| 5 | Pigeons thought they had found a regular roost on a Shrewsbury office block . |
| 6 | The US companies hoped they had found a new seam of commercially-viable movies , but none thought too deeply about what they were buying into . |
| 7 | In January 1981 , Emsley and others reported in the Journal of the American Chemical at Society ( vol 103 , p 24 ) that they had found a new strong hydrogen bond which formed between fluoride and amides — organic salts of ammonia . |
| 8 | Historically , people were not led to seek a hierarchical classification because of a belief in evolution ; rather , they were prejudiced in favour of evolution because they had found a hierarchical classification to be appropriate . |
| 9 | Last night the four boys who discovered James lying on the railway embankment said that at first they thought they had found a dead cat . |
| 10 | It is as if , once they had found an effective way of surviving and reproducing , and a relatively stable environment in which to go about their business , there was little pressure to change their way of life . |
| 11 | Later , police said they had found an Israeli-made submachine gun in a rubbish bin near the scene of the crime . |