Example sentences of "she find the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , without thinking , she found the right corridor . |
| 2 | In 1982 she found the right spot , in the harsh thornbush country of the Laikipiak Maasai , who live on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya . |
| 3 | At last she found the right room . |
| 4 | Glancing over , she saw he was deep in conversation , so she found the right amount and paid . |
| 5 | Of course , if she found the right man , and she loved him — Now why did she suddenly think of David Kent ? |
| 6 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 7 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 8 | She shone her torch round the gruesome chamber until she found the sodden stone she sought . |
| 9 | She found the sheer sophistication of Constance 's answer staggering , but managed to make a joke of it to Louise . |
| 10 | And this was not simply because she wished to be above reproach : it was also because , nearing her time , she found the eight-year-old boy exhausting . |
| 11 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 12 | With a sigh that was almost a gurgle of gratification , she found the slippery spread . |
| 13 | In the last second before the knifing pain in her chest forced her to breath in water she found the dangling mouthpiece , and pushed it back between her teeth . |
| 14 | Just off the main street , she found the first of the carrion creatures . |
| 15 | To her dismay she felt her cheeks grow hot , and by the time she reached the treatment area she found the first of her patients had arrived . |
| 16 | She found the finest clay , built a web of wires to spread it on , and sat breathless at her bench . |
| 17 | She found the burning rod and tasted its length , the swarthy towerhead , like a smooth-skinned fruit swollen with juice . |
| 18 | She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it . |
| 19 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |
| 20 | The various relations did n't have time to help the bride because they had to get themselves ready , and when Ellie knocked on Terry 's door to offer her own help she found the bride-to-be face down on the bed in floods of tears . |
| 21 | Isobel said that , personally , she found the latter much easier , but that she felt that the former was , in every sense , her job . |
| 22 | Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving . |
| 23 | This exemplary logic completed , it was another few breathless minutes before she found the necessary strength to contemplate walking the few feet to join Roman 's laughing , relaxed presence at the breakfast-table . |
| 24 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 25 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 26 | A police spokesman said yesterday : ‘ When she woke up she found the front door wide open . |
| 27 | She tried to think more rationally , to dismiss the darker possibilities from her mind , but after what had happened here in the past week or so she found the worrying thoughts came more easily . |
| 28 | Having been taught , first at an expensive public school and then at Oxford University , to express herself to order , she found the poor creatures who shambled along to 23 Dorman Road every Saturday , Thursday , Monday and Wednesday absolutely no competition at all . |
| 29 | And there , in the middle of the garden , she found the great beast 's supper dish . |
| 30 | She found the green carpet in a neighbouring flat , after it had been left empty . |