Example sentences of "found [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 2 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 5 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 6 | I found them in an old file . |
| 7 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 8 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 11 | That weekend found him in a sunny mood . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 16 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 17 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 18 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |
| 19 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |