Example sentences of "she had find a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three weeks ago , I was told by a voluntary worker for the homeless how she had found a 15-year-old girl , five months pregnant , sleeping on the concrete steps of a doorway in Charing Cross . |
| 2 | She had found a traditional-style establishment , full of oak beams and dried flowers , which specialised in meat grilled on an open fire in the restaurant itself . |
| 3 | She had found a retired garda sergeant and his wife , whose family had grown and scattered , leaving them with a large house and room to spare . |
| 4 | Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos . |
| 5 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 6 | She had found a good quick way of conveying the fact that something had arisen suddenly at her end that must claim her immediate attention ; a summons to go to the boss s office , the arrival of someone with whom she had an appointment , or letters to be signed to catch the afternoon post . |
| 7 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 8 | Six months later the Great War had broken out and she had found a new cause . |
| 9 | Dexter guessed that she had found a new man . |
| 10 | She had found a little beach not far from the lodge , but hard enough to reach that she was mostly by herself . |
| 11 | She had found a large blanket , which she placed in the back of her car , in the garage . |
| 12 | She had found a sweet lover where there had been no love . |
| 13 | Probably she had found a sufficient stock of unused paper in the attic — yellowed enough with age to carry conviction . |