Example sentences of "and found [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the cops did do something but I do n't know if it was a tip-off or dumb luck : they raided some farmhouse up in Tuscany and found her still alive . |
| 2 | The world exploded into popping blue circles as his irises clamped shut and his retinas screamed with the shock , like somebody who 'd dived into Caribbean waters and found them as cold as Arctic slush . |
| 3 | But then she realised that the customer in question was looking at her as if he could read her thoughts — and found them highly amusing . |
| 4 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |
| 5 | He had met them on business once , in Denmark , and found them quite congenial — save for the sea-obsession . |
| 6 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 7 | She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable and assured Wilson the ladies would require only coffee in the morning and would otherwise dine elsewhere . |
| 8 | She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage . |
| 9 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 10 | His own doctor had recently examined him and found him perfectly healthy . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Although when they first walked in and found you out cold on the floor , they thought you were one of the gang too ! |
| 12 | I have just read my first Smollett — ‘ The expedition of Humphrey Clinker ’ , and found it most entertaining , as well as throwing quite a different light on the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | I heard it perfectly and found it most interesting . " |
| 14 | One looked at the team and found it desperately hard to agree . |
| 15 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |
| 16 | Taking into account the Society 's view on the operation of the mobility clause and its own survey , the EOC found that the mobility requirement had a disproportionate impact on women applicants and found it indirectly discriminatory contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act . |
| 17 | He stayed in digs in a colliery village at the time and found it equally possible to integrate easily into the local community . |
| 18 | as if she knew what Carrie was thinking and found it mildly amusing . |
| 19 | Not thinking much of Fife 's soldierly abilities , and judging him in need of a lesson for his crowning of the usurper , he and Keith had attacked Perth town , and found it surprisingly easy to take . |
| 20 | I 'm sure you 've also experienced sessions you thought something somebody 's delivered in one session and found it really interesting you 've got a lot from it , and yet somebody else comes into the same subject matter and you think that you know was n't very interesting did n't , you know , did n't , I did n't really wanting to learn . |
| 21 | This New Year , I resolved to start the diet again and found it less difficult second time round . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 23 | ‘ Tom lay down on the grass and looked into the clear , clear limestone water , with every pebble at the bottom bright and clean , while the little silver trout dashed about in fright at the sight of his black face ; and he dipped his hand in and found it so cool , cool , cool ; and he said , ‘ I will be a fish ; I will swim in the water ; I must be clean , I must be clean ’ . ’ |
| 24 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 25 | The Gothic imagination dwelt on the mystery , and found it more productive of nightmares than of dreams of paradise . |
| 26 | we said that last year to our Neville and found it very boring |
| 27 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 28 | If you can afford several pairs , then I think that 7 × 50 , 8.5 × 50 and 12 × 40 is a reasonable selection , though recently I borrowed a 10 × 60 pair and found it very useful . |
| 29 | I 've used the Alpamayo for backpacking and Nordic ski touring and found it very stable . |
| 30 | ( Rather than Aunt Polly ) I enjoyed this book , and found it very clever , as it was all from Finn 's point of view . |