Example sentences of "found [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We found nothing on the river bank , ’ said Farag , still sturdily but less confidently . |
| 2 | We note that the court found nothing in the wording of section 2 which persuaded them that the course taken in A. v. H.M. |
| 3 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 6 | Her boyfriend found them in the back of his van , abandoned by someone months or years before their discovery , and they have collected chocolate stains from half eaten Minstrels and white smears from Quaker oats . |
| 7 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 8 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 9 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 10 | ‘ We found them behind the house when we moved in . |
| 11 | ‘ By the time you found me on the moor , I knew everything , but I could prove nothing . |
| 12 | Sundowner time found me at the Clachaig Inn ( JTR either went there or to the Temperance Hotel in Glencoe Village on the edge of Loch Leven ) after twenty-odd miles wandering and walking . |
| 13 | Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen . |
| 14 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |
| 15 | Me and Sam missed our way and found ourselves on the edge of Foxton Mire . |
| 16 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 17 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 18 | ‘ After the success of ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ we found ourselves in the position we 'd always dreamed of , ’ explains Mark Hollis , the main force behind Talk Talk . |
| 19 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 20 | We found ourselves in the middle of nowhere . |
| 21 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
| 22 | We found ourselves in the kitchen where a well-groomed girl was washing up - one of the tasks for which residents were responsible in this co-operative household . |
| 23 | The City streets were fairly quiet of course , but as we passed into the suburbs we found ourselves in the midst of the Saturday morning shopping rush . |
| 24 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 25 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 26 | McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed . |
| 27 | He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine . |
| 28 | For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry . |
| 29 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 30 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |