Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adj] find the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Celia got back from the opera , she was pleased to find the flat was empty . |
| 2 | For Rosemary , the insult on top of all the cruelty is in the fact that forty years had to pass before she was able to find the courage to lift the lid on the private hell that she 's bottled up all those years . |
| 3 | Her Spanish was fluent now , and she was able to find the right words . |
| 4 | She was surprised to find the Queen in conciliatory mood . |
| 5 | She was surprised to find the newly-weds still in the church forecourt , until she saw a photographer packing up his equipment . |
| 6 | When she went inside she was surprised to find the bag on the floor . |
| 7 | The arrival of the Brownings and her husband in Florence at the beginning of June was the beginning of what she felt to be a softening of her self and she was glad to find the hard crust she felt encasing her crack and dissolve . |