Example sentences of "they found the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found the various members of the company still rigid and separate , like a circle of tent pegs after the tent has blown away . |
| 2 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 3 | Only a small minority had claimed unemployment benefit before and so they found the complex procedures bewildering and confusing . |
| 4 | This policy was adopted by the government as part of its general economic strategy to cut public expenditure and meant that local authorities could only exceed a predetermined level of spending on higher education if they found the additional sums of money from the rates . |
| 5 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 6 | In white hooded overalls and trained for snow warfare , the Commando quickly occupied the two harbours on the westerly island of Moskenesöy , where they found the local Norwegians anxious they should stay in case there were German reprisals . |
| 7 | Well they put those in anyway , so unless they found the original ones , |
| 8 | The French Dragoons did not follow immediately ; instead they spurred into the abandoned wood where they found the Prussian camp-fires still burning . |
| 9 | When the Spaniards reached Middle America they found the native peoples using pearls and mother-of-pearl obtained from fisheries in the Caribbean , the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific coasts of south California and Mexico . |
| 10 | ‘ Thus , the enemy forfeited the advantage of surprise , and they found the English heroes ready for them when they struck . |
| 11 | They found the Three Cranes tavern at the corner of an alleyway just opposite St Mary Le Bow . |