Example sentences of "and find [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this last furlough we paid a last sad visit to the school and found a small girl crying her heart out . |
| 2 | He scratched together some lentils and nebes bread , and found a small jar of black beer and a clay straw to suck it with , thinking of the contrast between last night 's dinner and this . |
| 3 | He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford , which they shared with another couple and their children . |
| 4 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 5 | BEDS group , Airsprung , swopped Habitat for MFI and found a better market for its pine furniture . |
| 6 | Brian Eaton , a collector from Camberley has been rummaging around car boot sales and found a splendid aluminium model of a DH.91 Albatross . |
| 7 | They searched the premises and found a twelve-bore shot gun in the basement of the house . |
| 8 | Sik and Smith , of occupational psychologists Saville and Holdsworth , questioned players from three clubs , Sheffield United , Glasgow Celtic and Crystal Palace and found a complete spectrum of personalities from Lineker-level self-control to Gazza-grade tears and tomfoolery . |
| 9 | Staying in television , Crawford switched to ITV and found a new character . |
| 10 | The cord rolled a little and found a new position . |
| 11 | Ekong analysed the fruits and found a new compound , xylopic acid . |
| 12 | Olivia wrote to tell me that Ivy came back ( having found , at last , a suitable flat ) and found a penitent Polonaise willing for her to stay : ‘ at a great price , but less than the South Americans ’ . |
| 13 | Jenny , of Willenhall , West Midlands , said she dreamed up the dish after she visited her boyfriend in hospital and found a strange girl at his bedside . |
| 14 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 15 | I succeeded almost immediately and found a good alignment of moats ending at Gill 's Lap pine clump on Ashdown Forest , one of the marks noted by Tony Wedd . |
| 16 | But , as it was , he could expect to be made Solicitor-General and found a safe seat . |
| 17 | She opened another door and found a proper farmhouse kitchen , large and homely , with quarry tiled floor , scrubbed table and four chairs . |
| 18 | From Te Awamutu we went east to Rotorua and found a wonderful motor camp on the edge of town with its own hot pools . |
| 19 | ‘ We forced the lock on a cupboard and found a white towelling robe , filthy with orange-juice stains , and lots of pink-and-grey bed linen . |
| 20 | A group of lesbians and gay men monitored 688 hours of national television and radio during one week , and found a depressing picture . |
| 21 | He moved a pile of old furniture and found a broken chair with its back missing . |
| 22 | Lendrum et al took samples from the oseophagus of both normal volunteers and patients with Barrett 's oesophagus and found a significant correlation between rising pH and increasing concentrations of bile salts . |
| 23 | He belonged to that alliance of the professions , the remnants of old money and a smattering of intellectuals which had a romantic view of the working man and found a sympathetic ear in the leadership of more conservative trade unions . |
| 24 | Next they turned to the desk and found a large packet addressed to Mr Utterson . |
| 25 | The other month I was doing a forest scene and found a wild boar someone had painted out . |
| 26 | A subsequent study by Cornell ( 1985a ) analysed the values of ten S&P500 contracts for the period from April 1982 to September 1983 , and found no general pattern of underpricing . |
| 27 | She compared the results of students who had taken the regular lecture course with those of students using the computer-based programme and found no statistical difference in the amount of learning . |
| 28 | Anne Smith visited the Hobby Horse charity knitting event earlier this year and found an impressive group of young designers had entered the knitting competition organised by Hobby Horse and their schools . |
| 29 | After I heard it I went out and found an early news-stand . ’ |
| 30 | For example , Craig and Frosztega ( 1976 ) simply tested whether density declines with distance from the centroid of a population centre , and if the population of these centres follows some regular pattern ( e.g. rank-size or log-normal ) , and found an increasing fit from 1931 to 1961 . |