Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] found a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never found a wire he could n't climb . |
| 2 | Well , sir , I thought I had only found a cook , but it was a crew I had discovered ! |
| 3 | Marie 's eyes shone with the light of inspiration , as if she had suddenly found a purpose in life . |
| 4 | Of course Marguerite would not be here unless she had already found a companion ; Alain would not have allowed it . |
| 5 | Long before then , however , the rose had already found a place in the heart of man . |
| 6 | Endill expected to bump into him again soon , but after several weeks had seen nothing of him and concluded he had finally found a way out . |
| 7 | The Teessiders seemed to sense that the Rokermen were starting to wilt and in the 62nd minute it looked as though Middlesbrough had finally found a way through . |
| 8 | Bryony had finally found a job she liked , after various bizarre false starts , and months on social security . |
| 9 | ‘ How about something really radical on the dangers of sunbathing without blocker ? ’ said Helena , who had just found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there at the beginning of the summer . |
| 10 | At any rate , he had soon found a garage , and one with a mechanic who worked on a Sunday . |
| 11 | She herself had soon found a niche in the shop , organising the part-time assistants , seeing to the wages , ordering stock , being a sort of general manager . |
| 12 | He had lost his job because of the incident , but had later found a place on a youth training scheme , magistrates were told . |
| 13 | But the estate agent had now found a buyer , one who was eager to move in as soon as possible . |
| 14 | It had heartened her though that , probably from basic good manners , she had been able to mask her reluctance to get into the car with Ivo , and had even found a smile for him . |
| 15 | Since she had not been a UK resident for longer than 3 yrs , you had kindly found a policy which charged ‘ only' £14 extra . |
| 16 | But the lifts of the pen came regularly at every fourth letter — Middlemass had never found a forger who remembered to vary the interval at which he lifted pen from paper — and the dot above the i , high and slightly to the left , and the over-emphatic apostrophe were almost a trade-mark . |
| 17 | She had never found a life here , a raison d'être . |
| 18 | Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them . |