Example sentences of "she [vb past] find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She failed to find a donor in time to save Anthony , who died , aged just seven , but since then the register has helped to save hundreds of lives and continues to provide a vital service . |
| 2 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 3 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 4 | John 's wife Sheila told of her shock when she woke to find a gun trained on them at their home in Bromley , Kent . |
| 5 | Eventually , she 'd found a way to endure her moments spent on stage . |
| 6 | In one square , she 'd found a statue of Cyrano de Bergerac , his famous nose sadly foreshortened , probably by vandals , but otherwise much as Rostand had envisaged him . |
| 7 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 8 | She was n't broke — she 'd found a job selling cosmetics at Macy 's , just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan . |
| 9 | Eventually she seemed to find a gap in the blackout and , her enormous behind reared aloft , she glued her eye to the glass . |
| 10 | How she managed to find a smile for Ivo when she saw him waiting for her in the foyer , she did n't know . |
| 11 | Several emotions battered her at once then , so how she managed to find a voice that was as cool as his she would never know . |
| 12 | In the panniers , she did find a supply of Good Ole Home Cooking — Oreos , Hershey Bars , Babe Ruths , Wrigley 's Gum , Pork Popsicles . |
| 13 | She did n't find it , but buried right down at the bottom she did find a tape cassette in a box . |
| 14 | If she had found a man , life would have turned out differently for her , he knew . |
| 15 | Now it seemed she had found a man she could love , but he was someone else 's husband and her brother was bent on vengeance . |
| 16 | She had found a man who meant more to her than anything in the world and he was of another world , as he had told her . |
| 17 | She had found a gap in the blackout material and had fixed her eye to it . |
| 18 | She had found a cause , and the cause was n't yet debased by her own incapacity to believe . |
| 19 | But she had found a deal of happiness in her family . |
| 20 | When Katherine had opened the parcel , she had found a copy of Henry James 's Daisy Miller , but she had been too excited to read . |
| 21 | The elegantly shabby room in which she had found a haven was an oasis in the East End 's desert , which could be glimpsed through the small bow window . |
| 22 | Then , as if she had found a flaw in his argument , she pinged her own bell and announced : ‘ But you love Cork . |
| 23 | Hoped to God she had found a leaf somewhere . |
| 24 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 25 | She had to find a way to escape him . |
| 26 | She had to find a phone box ! |
| 27 | She had to find a balance between the role of leader , inspirer , companion , friend . |
| 28 | It refused to accept the bent card , and she had to find a barrier run by a human being . |
| 29 | Leaning forward , still shivering , wanting to be sick yet unable to raise anything from her empty stomach but an acrid bile which made her retch again , she attempted to find a chink somewhere in the blank wall , growing granite upon unyielding granite , around her . |