Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] found they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you better put them back where you found them do n't you ? |
| 2 | You can explain to him about your system and he 'll put the books back where he found them . ’ |
| 3 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 4 | When I saw the pictures , I could n't deny that I found them arousing . |
| 5 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 6 | I am glad that you found them useful . |
| 7 | Would that we found them totally bewildering ! |
| 8 | With Mr Milken 's pronounced bias towards debt , he and his raiders left companies in a far more precarious financial shape than they found them . |
| 9 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 10 | Alternatively , we might feel that people who took care to give different media sources exactly the same rating on an eleven-point scale were indicating quite strongly that they found them equally useful . |
| 11 | Not that he found them conflicting , still less was he offering a comparative mythology . |
| 12 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 13 | Of his Cornish relations he said that he found them ‘ … most excellent people , but I could not understand more than one half they said ’ . |
| 14 | He said Hall again approved the designs and only suggested some slight alterations to the elevations , whereas Hall later said that he found them ‘ objectionable and would never be accepted ’ . |
| 15 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 16 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 17 | You conjured up for me the legions of the unborn , and I found them as grisly a sight as the legions of the dead . |
| 18 | Er the market traders er are up in arms about this and I found them er in the process of trying to get a petition together but it it was n't put together right , they were just getting people to sign blank pieces of paper . |
| 19 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 20 | She would look for their gloves , would ring back if she found them . |
| 21 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 22 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 23 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 24 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're only home-made , but I found them very useful to practise with . ’ |
| 26 | They gave me room in their carriage , but I found them very cold and strange . |
| 27 | Many sunbirds were flitting around , but I found them almost impossible to . |
| 28 | But I found them thoroughly disgraceful , all the same : aesthetically , they worked on me like violence . |
| 29 | ( I watched the videos once , because they were rated x , but I found them terribly dull , and the leading man looked like my girlfriend 's father . |
| 30 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |