Example sentences of "find [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 2 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 3 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 4 | Two-twenty-five found me on the steps of a slightly crumbling mansion in what the Estate Agents would call a highly desirable residential area . |
| 5 | He 's the man I was fighting when the soldiers found me on the marshes , Pip . |
| 6 | ‘ By the time you found me on the moor , I knew everything , but I could prove nothing . |
| 7 | Then I heard him falling and hurried back to find him on the floor . |
| 8 | She went into Jack 's office to find him on the phone . |
| 9 | They all found her on the telephone to her boyfriend again . |
| 10 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 11 | The warm hold of Rochester was chosen by the sagacious brute , and Willis , always up very early , found her on the ruins of the new locker cushions , with live mud-coloured kittens . |
| 12 | At ten past eight that evening , when he ran downstairs to answer his outer doorbell and found her on the doorstep , it was as if he had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 13 | Police and social workers called to her home in Bretch Hill in Banbury , found her on the floor of a filthy , stinking room , containing soiled sheets . |
| 14 | Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ? |
| 15 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 16 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 17 | The next morning found him on the practice fields as soon as the sun was up , battering his post as though it were a mortal enemy . |
| 18 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 19 | And they found him on the floor ? |
| 20 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
| 21 | A number of nurseries are offering it now , and you are likely to find it on the plant stalls of plantsmen 's gardens open to the public . |
| 22 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 23 | Someone 's phoned in to say they found it on the grass . |
| 24 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 25 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 26 | He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk . |
| 27 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 28 | We found it on the ice outside the North Bastion tower , yet you said you were in the city all night . ’ |
| 29 | They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above . |
| 30 | We found it on the back . |