Example sentences of "[vb past] found [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHe 'd found him in his workroom , staring moodily at the monitor screen . |
| 2 | At least I 'd found him . |
| 3 | Rab ushered her into the kitchen : he wondered how she 'd found him . |
| 4 | Mr Shepherd appeared in my office with my son — said he 'd found him roaming about the factory . |
| 5 | There she 'd found him alone — pretending to have forgotten it was Christmas — all the rest of the family having tactfully cried off . |
| 6 | On her return , she 'd found him entertaining several field officers from the nearby KOSB battalion . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked you if you 'd found him . ’ |
| 8 | They 'd found him . |
| 9 | She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why . |
| 10 | She 'd found him showered and changed into lightweight jeans and a white polo shirt and reading in the shade of the cloister-like gallery terrace that ran along the back of the house overlooking the gardens and the pool . |
| 11 | They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time . |
| 12 | He 'd found them through an ad in Private Eye , and they always welcomed his business — but then , the tottering co-operative would welcome anybody 's business . |
| 13 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 14 | He 'd find that Way Out , but he would n't leave until he 'd found them again and sorted them out . |
| 15 | If Esmonde ever asked me how I enjoyed the evening 's ‘ specials ’ I could always say I 'd found them warm and soft ; comfortable to land on . |
| 16 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 17 | He 'd found her , he said , and next day he 'd either lay siege to the place , or boldly batter on the door and ask for her hand in marriage — or at least her something else in something else ! |
| 18 | He 'd found me . ’ |
| 19 | I assumed he 'd found us somewhere else to live while it was being rebuilt . |
| 20 | ‘ What good would it have done telling Sergei I 'd found you ? |
| 21 | She talked about it a little , wondering what had happened to you , feeling it was better not to interfere , so I did n't tell her I 'd found you . |
| 22 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 23 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 24 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 25 | He took a moment to slip the harmonica back where he 'd found it , in the vent on the faulty fibrillator . |
| 26 | Then , whistling to himself , he washed the podger clean and put it back where he 'd found it , against the far wall . |
| 27 | You were only young too and perhaps you 'd found it difficult that first time , to avoid having to make another date . |
| 28 | Sometimes she 'd found it difficult to believe a word he said , but he had been there to meet her when she 'd arrived as a stranger . |
| 29 | Once she 'd got over her natural disgust , she 'd found it stimulated a weird , perverse feeling of being naughty , like a child playing in a lavatory . |
| 30 | It was as if , now that he 'd found it , he was transfixed by his discovery . |