Example sentences of "found [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 2 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 3 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 4 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 6 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 7 | The demand for tuition in mathematics fluctuated so Smith often found himself teaching other subjects such as classics , theology and philosophy . |
| 8 | Soon Alexander found himself teaching fellow actors , with similar problems , what he had learned . |
| 9 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 10 | We Christians might want to interpret things differently , yet in his masterpiece , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , the Jesuit nineteenth-century poet , Gerard Manley Hopkins , found himself writing these lines : |
| 11 | October is the cocktail month in Washington ; the British embassy can be throwing three parties a week , and with the Liaison Office 's yen to keep Maxim busy , he inevitably found himself sipping deep-frozen Scotch with a wing-commander from the Office . |
| 12 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 13 | He found himself making imploring promises to God then retreated into hating himself and Maxim of course . |
| 14 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 15 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 16 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 17 | In the later pharaonic centuries Egypt found itself sacked several times by Libyans , Ethiopians , Persians and Assyrians , before being conquered by the Greeks under Alexander in 332 BC . |
| 18 | The renowned original intention of the COS was to organize charity , but it soon found itself investigating individual cases , and as a result developed a casework methodology , the fundamentals of which were home-visiting , comprehensive and in-depth interviewing , written records , committee discussions , emphasis on ‘ character ’ as well as circumstances , preservation of family respectability , and , generally applicable , a ‘ carefully specified procedure ’ . |
| 19 | IBM also found itself confronting new alliances , such as DEC and Apple . |
| 20 | She found herself uttering silent prayers , and was rewarded as a small shape came into view from the east . |
| 21 | When at last she lifted her head , she found herself facing three pairs of curious , slightly embarrassed eyes . |
| 22 | But it slowed her up considerably , and as time passed she found herself casting furtive glances over her shoulder . |
| 23 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 24 | Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles . |
| 25 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 26 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 27 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 28 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 29 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 30 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |