Example sentences of "[pers pn] found [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 300 of them found work at either Stephenson 's or the North Road Works . |
| 2 | Around 250 responses were received last year commenting on the group 's initial consultation paper , and 140 of them found fault . |
| 3 | If one of them found lice it must be a tragedy for all of them … they must comb each other 's hair , help each other when they were sick , live as a community , in short . |
| 4 | I found Jo in the hall trying to get through the scrum of people to the kitchen . |
| 5 | I have tried various media since then , and , being a very quick painter , I found pastel too my liking . |
| 6 | I found Fife and Drum as cubs , the dog-wolf slain by hunters , the she-wolf dying . |
| 7 | So perhaps , if I spent my time explaining how and why I found difficulty , that must be some sort of substitute . |
| 8 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 9 | In that case I found questions raised which go to two major issues . |
| 10 | I found letters to me . |
| 11 | It died for me the moment I found Mason in her bed . ’ |
| 12 | Then , finally , edging nervously round a bluff of rock , I found Owen setting up his camera on a small , gently shelving piece of grass level with the foot of the colony . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've no idea what I felt like when I found Nicola . |
| 14 | However , at a recent service I found signs of burning on the spark plugs and I have reverted to leaded . |
| 15 | Up in the hills , at the place of marching water , I found Ashley Watt and one of her more exotic cousins . |
| 16 | And if I if I found D Y by D sine X that would show me , not the gradient of this curve , |
| 17 | and I found D Y by D X and I found that it came to erm X squared . |
| 18 | Back at Stuart Street I found Fenella and Lisabeth and Miranda and Doogie busy decorating the staircase with brightly coloured tinsel streamers which had clumps of real holly tied into them every eighteen inches or so . |
| 19 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |
| 20 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 21 | I must say that I found Sarah Yardley 's ‘ Viewpoint ’ on goats very interesting . |
| 22 | The first year after I moved in I found snails , morning after morning , an infantry of them , silvering across the damp lawn . |
| 23 | I found relativity a bit hard to understand to begin with — because if you have n't done it before , the idea that velocity is relative to everything else , I found hard to grasp , because , before , I just said , that velocity was a definite value — now you 're doing it relative to everything else . |
| 24 | When I got upstairs I found Abu Salim , which did nothing for my confidence , |
| 25 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 26 | ‘ I — I found things out . |
| 27 | I found Ika a kind and gentle young man . |
| 28 | I found jacket , did I tell you ? |
| 29 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
| 30 | I left the woman 's house as soon as I found work and a room to rent . |