Example sentences of "[vb past] found [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Tate , of Battersea Training School ( for teachers ) , whose students had to help look after the pigs ; Charles Godfrey , who helped found mathematics education as a discipline in its own right . |
| 2 | Curtis had closed that side door twice but I 'd found reasons to go back through , the dogs ' bowls , checking the padlock on the cellar and , somehow , I did n't bother to shut it . |
| 3 | Let me tell you … let me tell you … ’ she racked her brains ‘ … about the time the twins thought they 'd found gold in the creek on our farm . |
| 4 | A woman once wrote to me , desperately upset , because , while going through her dead husband 's effects , she 'd found love letters he 'd written to another woman . |
| 5 | Like the time she 'd found Will Pegg 's pockets full of iron nails he 'd filched from Samson . |
| 6 | Paheri accused Surere of taking too soft a line ; but I also heard that he 'd found Surere in bed with a stable boy . |
| 7 | But they were turned back by police who 'd found drugs at the scene . |
| 8 | A police officer told the coroner he 'd found youths on the site at least six times since the fence had been erected earlier this year . |
| 9 | I did n't go out again until Ken stormed in and said he 'd found Nicola . ’ |
| 10 | And because we 'd found self-esteem , we had the courage to go and sell ourselves successfully to employers . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you say you 'd found Chatwin ? ’ she inquired as we caressed a rosewood cabinet . |
| 12 | We 'd found cornflakes in a plastic container in the cupboard . |
| 13 | ‘ I only wish , ’ he called out , ‘ we 'd found Alderman Horne ! ’ |
| 14 | In the 1980s , we thought we 'd found salvation to our problems in artificial intelligence and expert systems . |
| 15 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 16 | I thought I had found paradise . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't see anything in Finn , ’ said Lydia , who had found Finn 's terrible reputation one of his greatest attractions . |
| 18 | He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use . |
| 19 | What if Seb had found syringes in the long-jump pit ? |
| 20 | This idea had found echoes in various peace proposals of the 1980s and ( as a first step towards a two-state solution ) in Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) declarations from 1989 [ see pp. 36860 ; 37749-51 ; 38117 ] . |
| 21 | He had found chainsaw and fuel in the carport storage chest . |
| 22 | Ludens had found space and time , amid his new sensations , to feel very sorry that he had not gone to see Franca when she had , so unusually , as he realised just afterwards , invited him . |
| 23 | She followed its descent to the water 's edge , then looked across to where a high rock wall was studded with clumps of ferny growth that had found soil in crevices . |
| 24 | The morning after he had left his swimming things in the stolen Mini , when he had gone up early to see old Bones , he had found Nails fast asleep in the straw in the chestnut mare 's box . |
| 25 | When she arrived home she had found Larry polishing his shoes at the table . |
| 26 | In 1907 his family moved to Shrewsbury , where his father had found promotion with the Joint Railways . |
| 27 | Durham was the place where he had found happiness . |
| 28 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 29 | Fernando had found happiness , with someone else . |
| 30 | My two friends had found Orlick 's letter to me , which , in my hurry , I had dropped in my room in London . |