Example sentences of "[coord] found the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others saw little value in the exercise and either received no personal feedback after visits or found the comments made to be unhelpful . |
| 2 | While most of the people rested in the river meadow , shivering as the layers of fog brimmed round them , Cameron and a few strong runners made for the Tummel above the confluence , crossed it , and found the people of Atholl and Tulliemet overflowing the howff at Widow Duff 's , supping broth , chewing mutton , throwing ribs to the dogs . |
| 3 | He reached out for something outside his prison and found The Rights of Man , he concentrated on passages he knew well and summoned them up word for word . |
| 4 | I put down the Mail , opened the Telegraph and found the same tale , though told in less lurid terms . |
| 5 | Dear L.B : When one has finally done the job and found the mot juste , I dare say violent language usually disappears . |
| 6 | Jackson recently sat down and listened through his collected works , prior to making selections for the current live show , and found the thread wearing a little thin in places . |
| 7 | The first evening we arrived , after digging in , a few of us from Brigade H.Q took a walk through the village and found the local café . |
| 8 | One can imagine his dismay when he returned to the port and found the ship had gone — either earlier than planned or because the crew did n't want to be caught helping him . |
| 9 | Some people found the sing-song voice a barrier , and found the beginning and the middle easier to listen to than the end . |
| 10 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 11 | ‘ But then I thought , no , let's go crazy , ’ says Alison , ‘ so I went shopping and found the shorts in a shop on the King 's Road that specialises in tight gear . |
| 12 | He then went in and found the body of a young woman . |
| 13 | He glanced up and found the cool blue eyes on him . |
| 14 | The trial is so entangled with the standing of the ANC that the right-wing Conservative Party has blamed the ‘ state intelligence service ’ for the disappearance of an important state witness ; the party 's argument was that the government wanted to persuade whites of the virtue of negotiations with the ANC , and found the trial embarrassing . |
| 15 | He raced to the scene and found the van , its interior sprayed with blood . |
| 16 | He searched the kitchen and found the household cleaner standing by the tea caddy , a sprinkling of white powder beside it on the formica . |
| 17 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 18 | I headed out of town and found the path through the woods where earlier I had seen the white hound running . |
| 19 | More than once , in a guestroom after dinner , when the strangers had left , the host produced a copy of Hassanein Bey 's book , and found the passage which recounts how other tribes were jealous of the Zuwaya because of their standing with the Sanusi family . |
| 20 | Letting the water buoy up my weight I stretched my feet down to touch bottom and found the water came up to my ears ; took a deep breath , put the rest of my head under and reached around for Harry , unable to see him , unable with open eyes to see anything at all . |
| 21 | Thus it was not until 1598 that an English account — by the scholar , traveller and self-consciously perfect English gentleman , Fynes Morrison — was actually redolent with patronizing contempt , and only in 1617 that there was a complete hatchet job , when Anthony Weldon accompanied James VI and I to Scotland and found the experience utterly abhorrent . |
| 22 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |
| 23 | He turned his head , mouthing eagerly , and found the nipple so fast you 'd think it was made of iron and he was a magnet . |
| 24 | She went to tea with Beatrice and found the atmosphere almost as dramatic : ‘ At B. 's this afternoon there arrived du monde including a very lovely young woman , married and curious — and blonde — and passionate . |
| 25 | I stayed in hospital for six days and found the idea of going home without him very upsetting . |
| 26 | If we drilled many boreholes into the aquifer and found the level of water in all of them , we could imagine a surface made by joining all the individual levels . |
| 27 | A few weeks before , he 'd returned home soon after getting to work because he 'd left some important papers behind , and found the house totally silent , all three children and their mother sound asleep at 9.30 in the morning . |
| 28 | But then , and quite different from such pleasures , and like a voice from far more distant regions , there came a moment when I idly turned the pages of the book and found the unrhymed translation of Tegner 's Drapa and read : |
| 29 | After a couple of halfhearted bucks he settled and found the whole thing rather boring . |
| 30 | Nails concentrated hard and found the stride about once in every two circles , but could not keep with it for more than two or three strides before he lost his balance and came down while Midnight was coming up . |