Example sentences of "they [vb past] find [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
| 2 | There was an air of disquiet , much muttering and whispering as they tried to find a solution to the problem facing them — a greater broad backed bookworm had been spotted . |
| 3 | 100m from the line Block/Burgess were lying 4th but they seemed to find a reserve of energy from somewhere and crossed the line 1st , followed by Estevez/Marcheco of Cuba and Bobreshov/Kalesnik of the USSR in 0.8 secs . |
| 4 | This they seemed to find no difficulty in doing , once the meeting started . |
| 5 | They seemed to find the place as fascinating as we did , luckily . |
| 6 | T. B. Bloody pest was stray animals , stray dogs — people would come up and say they 'd found a stray , and you 'd have to take it off them , take their name and address . |
| 7 | They told me they 'd found the source and they were going to prosecute the offender . |
| 8 | They 'd crossed a highway while there was no traffic , they 'd blundered around in damp undergrowth , scurrying away from every chirp and mysterious croak , and finally they 'd found the plastic . |
| 9 | So they went found a found a colt in the street , tied it to the door of the houses , there was tying it , some of the by-standers asked them what are you doing , untying that colt . |
| 10 | So when they left Bristol they went to find a place that takes , , then they took the wrong turning off the |
| 11 | They went to find the entrance to the complex . |
| 12 | In fact once submerged they had to find a red rod and drag themselves along it to the other side of the stage ; more than one mother screamed in fear when she saw the show . |
| 13 | They had to find a way of drawing Nadirpur out . |
| 14 | He arrived here very late , and they had to find a bunk for him on Rochester . |
| 15 | They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money . |
| 16 | It was very , very difficult for them , they had to come and they had to find the , the actual crash , and it was an appalling position to get to , erm , the efficiency was splendid . |
| 17 | To stop muddy water getting into the valves , they had to find an alcove in the roof , and create an artificial air bell by opening a tank and filling the alcove with air . |
| 18 | Police said last night they had found no more devices and were reopening the city centre . |
| 19 | They had found no less than five flesh wounds on his body when they stripped him of his armour , but all clean and none dangerous , once the draining of his blood was staunched . |
| 20 | They had found no permanent livelihood or shelter away from their disease-ridden village . |
| 21 | The US companies hoped they had found a new seam of commercially-viable movies , but none thought too deeply about what they were buying into . |
| 22 | Historically , people were not led to seek a hierarchical classification because of a belief in evolution ; rather , they were prejudiced in favour of evolution because they had found a hierarchical classification to be appropriate . |
| 23 | After years of ticking over , the company realised they had found a group with the determination and talent worthy of excessive backing . |
| 24 | In January 1981 , Emsley and others reported in the Journal of the American Chemical at Society ( vol 103 , p 24 ) that they had found a new strong hydrogen bond which formed between fluoride and amides — organic salts of ammonia . |
| 25 | Pigeons thought they had found a regular roost on a Shrewsbury office block . |
| 26 | They had found a paper in the literature describing the ratio of helium-3 and helium-4 in volcanic regions and were unknowingly getting close to the origins of Chatterjee 's ideas in India . |
| 27 | Staff at the hospital had been amazed they had found a donor so quickly and her husband was overwhelmed by the speed of the events . |
| 28 | In 1990 , to great excitement , Kenneth Blum of the University of Texas at San Antonio , and Ernest Noble of the University of California , Los Angeles , announced that they had found a gene peculiarly common among alcoholics . |
| 29 | In America , where they often performed , the trains struck them as poignant chiefly because uncared for , but they had found a friend with a long New England face who was a fireman on the run to Boston , and his professionalism and high interest in the topic of transport were entirely cheering . |
| 30 | They drove towards Ashdown Forest , and even before they had found a suitable place to stop , Charlotte had begun to recount the events of the past week in such detail that it was obvious she was holding nothing back . |