Example sentences of "[noun pl] found the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a random sample of women in Camberwell , the researchers found the following relationships between provoking agents and depression , first among a sample of women who were vulnerable and secondly among a sample of women who were not . |
| 2 | All courts had their stretches of boredom , even that of the Second Empire , in spite of its reputation for brilliance and verve , though habitués of other royal palaces found the French Court infinitely preferable to those of other European sovereigns . |
| 3 | A leading article in The Times found the general approach tentative , but did not offer any criticism on those grounds . |
| 4 | TWO schoolboys looking for crabs found the lower half of a human body . |
| 5 | Her eyes flew open just as his lips found the delicate curve of her neck . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know how I 've kept my hands off you , ’ he murmured , as his lips found the tender skin below her ear . |
| 7 | It was murmured throatily against the swell of her breasts , before his lips found the hard jut of her nipples and she dropped her head back with a gasp of pure delight . |
| 8 | Her lips found the soft skin in the angle of his shoulder , and her tongue dipped into the hollow of his throat , tasting the saltiness of his skin . |
| 9 | I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score . |
| 10 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 11 | Our participation was well received and much to our satisfaction all three visitors found the Royal Bank 's level of co-operation and commitment far superior to that offered by our competitors within the City . |
| 12 | Rescuers found the red Datsun embedded in the tree and took almost an hour to free the men using hydraulic lifting and cutting gear . |
| 13 | This is one reason why third-world national liberation movements found the 19th-century traditions , both liberal and revolutionary-democratic , so congenial . |
| 14 | The survey of seven airlines found the average age of pilots when they died was 61 . |
| 15 | In the 1950s , the Boards found the Conservative Government increasingly concerned about their shops ' competition with the private sector of electrical retailing . |
| 16 | Many Palestinians found the Muslim revival shocking . |
| 17 | Since The Machine Gunners found the biggest audience , it is useful to look in some detail at the range of reasons offered by teachers for its popularity . |
| 18 | Single capacity was supposed to reduce conflicts of interest as brokers found the best prices from jobbers for their clients and jobbers competed amongst each other to produce fair prices . |
| 19 | The trials came to an abrupt end when local fisheries officers found the frozen remains of common dolphins and pilot whales on board the fishing boats . |
| 20 | Firemen who broke into a house in Bruce Crescent , Hartlepool , after a call from worried neighbours found the elderly occupant dead inside . |
| 21 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 22 | 87% of all mothers found the Better Shoe fit card useful and said they were likely to keep it . |
| 23 | With an average staffing enhancement in Phase 3 schools of 0.9 , and with the majority of appointments made at MPG level , many such teachers found the developmental aspects of their job specifications constantly subverted by the need to cover for colleagues . |
| 24 | And remembering Johnny 's face when he had talked of Dusty Miller , she knew that neither he nor his friends found the whole thing much of a joke , either . |
| 25 | The four ladies found the whole hypermarket shopping experience an immense contrast to the very basic counter service shops that predominate in their home country . |
| 26 | Police found the exhausted pensioner bewildered by the roadside . |
| 27 | The police found the burned car and thought I was dead . |
| 28 | Police found the remorseful robber desperate to give himself up . |
| 29 | Police found the empty bags in a garden . |
| 30 | Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun . |