Example sentences of "found [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 2 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 3 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 4 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 5 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 6 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 7 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 8 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 9 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 10 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 11 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 12 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 13 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 14 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 15 | But young Morton found it among the dead cases , all the same . ’ |
| 16 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 17 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |