Example sentences of "they [vb past] find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an air of disquiet , much muttering and whispering as they tried to find a solution to the problem facing them — a greater broad backed bookworm had been spotted . |
| 2 | 100m from the line Block/Burgess were lying 4th but they seemed to find a reserve of energy from somewhere and crossed the line 1st , followed by Estevez/Marcheco of Cuba and Bobreshov/Kalesnik of the USSR in 0.8 secs . |
| 3 | So when they left Bristol they went to find a place that takes , , then they took the wrong turning off the |
| 4 | They had to find a way of drawing Nadirpur out . |
| 5 | He arrived here very late , and they had to find a bunk for him on Rochester . |
| 6 | In America , where they often performed , the trains struck them as poignant chiefly because uncared for , but they had found a friend with a long New England face who was a fireman on the run to Boston , and his professionalism and high interest in the topic of transport were entirely cheering . |
| 7 | Police in north India , meanwhile , said they had found a cache of 6lb of RDX plastic explosive , similar to that used in the Bombay bombs . |
| 8 | This profession , which most members had come to brimming with conviction that they had found a way of linking their idealism to an honourable way of earning a living , has been devastated by continuous attack from the media . |
| 9 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 10 | They had found a witness who confirmed that one of their prime suspects had left the party at the right time to murder Nicola . |
| 11 | After years of ticking over , the company realised they had found a group with the determination and talent worthy of excessive backing . |
| 12 | In 1990 , to great excitement , Kenneth Blum of the University of Texas at San Antonio , and Ernest Noble of the University of California , Los Angeles , announced that they had found a gene peculiarly common among alcoholics . |
| 13 | They had found a patch of clean sand half-shaded by the rocks that were heaped on one side of the little cove . |
| 14 | ‘ The forensic people told us that they had found a trace of paper in his nostrils . |
| 15 | They had found a paper in the literature describing the ratio of helium-3 and helium-4 in volcanic regions and were unknowingly getting close to the origins of Chatterjee 's ideas in India . |
| 16 | Staff at the hospital had been amazed they had found a donor so quickly and her husband was overwhelmed by the speed of the events . |