Example sentences of "had find in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The altar was built of orange boxes , covered with a white silk cloth that Meg had found in the ragstore . |
| 2 | He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchen garden , old and nearly dead from starvation . |
| 3 | He wanted to recapture the feeling of being his own man , addressing his own problems , working as a member of a wider team that he had found in the RAF . |
| 4 | ‘ No wonder no one knew about him ! ’ the sergeant exclaimed as he studied the identity card he had found in the man 's wallet . |
| 5 | Then he slowly held up the object he had carried from the car — the object he had found in the gas station . |
| 6 | The Food Smell was still above it , and those pangs which had been temporarily assuaged by what it had found in the wall below , were now growing ever-sharper once more . |
| 7 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 8 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 9 | She could feel him find the ring on her third finger , the one Peter had found in the snow one day and thrown across the shop counter to her when nobody had come to claim it . |
| 10 | Although ‘ nice ’ was hardly the word for the brief joy she had found in the fairy-tale city . |
| 11 | In her letter , which Wycliffe had found in the undertaker 's desk , Hilda had said that she was alone in the office from twelve to one each day and it was now half-past twelve . |
| 12 | And as failed actor — he started his career on the stage before going to the Slade to study under Legros — he found in the music hall and its world precisely those sources of inspiration which Degas had found in the corridors of the Opera , and the foetid atmosphere of the Cirque Fernando . |
| 13 | The one Masklin had found in the Store , the one that had given him the idea for driving the Truck . |
| 14 | It must be the one they had found in the lock and she had handed it to Darren to relock the door . |
| 15 | Benjamin replied , and gave a short description of what we had found in the stables and in Southgate 's chamber . |
| 16 | Carolyn asked , as they sat picking at some smoked ham and coleslaw Alan had found in the fridge . |
| 17 | His hair was tied back with a piece of tinsel string he had found in the Christmas decorations box . |
| 18 | He 'd had a sudden sick recollection of the headline in the Illustrated Police News , dated 1870 , which he had found in the library archives . |
| 19 | She remembered the book she had found in the flat , but rejected it . |
| 20 | As for the dormeuse , it would seem to have been taken as far as Quatre Bras ; and there , according to his fellow officers von Oetlinger and von Humbracht , von Keller determined to open the necessaire that he had found in the carriage , believing it to be full of gold . |
| 21 | Bernard particularly enjoyed the dinner when he served his aristocratic French guests with wine from some dusty old bottles he said he had found in the cellar . |