Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] found a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without difficulty I found a Bed and Breakfast house , equally smart and highly polished , and settled down for a pre-exploratory nap . |
| 2 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 3 | A few miles outside Idar I found a meadow by the side of the Nahe where I could picnic . |
| 4 | Miss Sherwin said : ‘ In the front bedroom they found a quantity of uniforms , two empty gun cases and a bag full of ammunition . |
| 5 | In the locked glove compartment they found a £3,137.33 Access bill . |
| 6 | After a short search they found a half brick made of concrete and went over to the water through . |
| 7 | In the carriage he found a comrade , who had been suspected of being a stool-pigeon . |
| 8 | Returning home one night after a sorting session I found a list of messages , mostly concerning Christian Aid , awaiting me . |
| 9 | She asked for an orange juice , and while he was at the bar she found a table in the window . |
| 10 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 11 | In Bayeux we found a florist and ordered a wreath in the shape of an RAF roundel . |
| 12 | Among the scattered debris he found a watch which he kept as souvenir until shortly before he died when he asked his nephew , John , to take the watch and try and trace a relative of the crew to give it to . |
| 13 | Shortly after moving into her apartment she found a job where she was truly in her element . |
| 14 | as if one superlative were not enough for a single day , just across the way from Bill 's place I found a stall serving some unusual flavours of ice-cream . |
| 15 | On a table in the living room they found a letter addressed to me . |
| 16 | On reaching the room he found a chair lying in one corner . |
| 17 | ‘ Then how come when we pulled her from her suit I found a folder full of Alex Bannen 's notes stashed away inside the sleeve ? ’ |
| 18 | When she returned to Margate after 10.30 that night she found a letter from Edward , posted before they had met , awaiting her . |
| 19 | Later that day he found a letter for Kay 's mother lying in the hall . |
| 20 | At the nick he found a reception committee from the press . |
| 21 | Next morning I found a note on my desk . |
| 22 | Behind fresh eggs and bacon and milk at the front of the fridge she found a pile of dates covered in green mould , and a piece of Stilton turning grey , and an older lump of lettuce wrapped in newspaper . |
| 23 | On reaching the last train they found a colleague talking to a middle-aged man dressed in a light-coloured rain coat and flat cap who was assumed to have been overcarried on the last train after going out of service at Capland Road Station . |
| 24 | In a drawer by the sink he found a billspike with a number of receipts , and he took these with him . |
| 25 | In his pocket he found a screwdriver and inspected the narrow end as if he were a surgeon about to perform a delicate operation . |
| 26 | Even in this hell-hole he found a kind of salvation . |
| 27 | At the gate I found a workman , who had seen her jump the low wall separating the garden from the road , and then ride on towards the hills and Wuthering Heights . |
| 28 | Under a pillow on our bed I found a cache of fat neatly rolled marijuana joints . |
| 29 | Cos erm her husband was a farmer we found a lot of old really old ploughshares like |
| 30 | At the scene of the offence they found a Renault , a Peugeot and a Toyota car , each with a smashed window . |