Example sentences of "[adv] found the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light . |
| 2 | When the police eventually found the abandoned truck they 'd assume the driver who 'd stolen it had been drunk . |
| 3 | She looked at him sharply , finally found the good sense to tug her arm out of his hold . |
| 4 | With some desperate moves , including a two finger jam in a wet , moss filled crack , I reached a jug , pulled myself to safety and finally found the easy scramble to the top . |
| 5 | In Henry , Arnulf finally found the potential monarch for whom he had been searching . |
| 6 | To be honest , I just found the whole thing hilarious . ’ |
| 7 | How reliable this will be is difficult to say , since it could n't find an old Logitech Serial Mouse we had on the test machine , but always found the pre-loaded mouse driver — but this is beta test software , so there 's still work to be done . |
| 8 | Nobody ever found the brown envelope |
| 9 | Nobody ever found the brown envelope . |
| 10 | I once found the complete skeleton of a sea otter here , a sad reminder of Camusfearna : could this have been one of Gavin 's friends ? |
| 11 | He also found the other half of the murder weapon . |
| 12 | The expedition also found the coastal population to be a potentially fertile field where the Imperial cult could take root . |
| 13 | Little of the frantic and customary Neath 15-man handling movements were seen and until late in the game , three-quarters and full-backs stood motionless , until they also found the driving maul and battering game too appealing . |
| 14 | Obviously Modigliani also found the old man 's lasciviousness offensive . |
| 15 | We also found the basal acid output to be significantly greater in patients with duodenal ulcers and with H pylori than in patients with duodenal ulcers without this infection . |
| 16 | Cage and Barwick also found the short stuff , the former one of five scratch men and nine Yorkshire players from the mighty Sand Moor club in Leeds . |
| 17 | Searchers later found the wet-suited torso , an ambulance service spokesman said . |
| 18 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 19 | Two-Dogs had long ago found the real place , an abandoned monastery in the desert . |
| 20 | His fingers traced the warm smoothness of her thighs and belly , then found the hot wetness at the core of her . |
| 21 | East then found the inspired opening lead of the jack of hearts . |
| 22 | He evidently found the new idiom interestingly problematic , but not attractive enough to compel his full attention . |
| 23 | Trevor wanted to get married , but never found the right girl . |
| 24 | ‘ Well — I never found the right woman . |