Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] found [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims . |
| 2 | Or else found it out . |
| 3 | These men were grateful to be working at all , fearful that one foot out of place would end the cash flow that eventually found its way into some remote village on the other side of the Straits of Hormuz . |
| 4 | In 1861 the benighted Admiral Putiatin , Minister of Education , not only supported the idea of transferring censorship to the Ministry of Internal Affairs but also proposed the approach to the press that eventually found its way into law . |
| 5 | This was , of course , a faction among Catholics , and one that dangerously found itself outnumbered and outmoded as the years went on . |
| 6 | We 'd started with a lobster bisque that was almost certainly Sainsbury 's , but since Sainsbury 's almost certainly make the finest lobster bisque that ever found itself in a can , there can be no complaint . |
| 7 | Er and they were the kind of people that sometimes found theirself in difficulties , at the end of this quarter , as it 's called , because Well it was n't everybody that could pay it . |
| 8 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 9 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 10 | At about the same time , however , there was someone , somewhere , who was more than usually interested in chronicling Titford family details from past generations : a sheet of pale blue paper watermarked ‘ 1860 ’ was covered with names and dates by some mysterious hand , and eventually found its way into Benjamin 's own papers . |
| 11 | Corporate approaches had their origins in business thinking in the United States of America , were implemented in large multinational corporations in the 1950s , and eventually found their way into public sector thinking in Britain in the late 1960s . |
| 12 | Less than a year later we got married and I moved down here and eventually found myself a job . |
| 13 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 14 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 15 | They played ‘ ’ Invitation to the Waltz' ’ on Radio 3 this morning' — she was speaking faster and faster , edging towards the gun — ‘ such a heavenly tune , I played it at school , and suddenly found myself waltzing round the kitchen , then Ethel leapt up and waltzed with me , and I thought perhaps there is a life after Hamish . |
| 16 | and suddenly found myself , with them , |
| 17 | But suppose that he proceeds in the general direction from where he assumed by voice came and suddenly found himself face to face with a stranger who looked very similar to myself . |
| 18 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 19 | She felt like someone who suffered from vertigo and suddenly found themselves standing on the edge of a deep abyss . |
| 20 | Coughing and spluttering , she went under , treading water , and suddenly found herself supported by a pair of equally strong arms as she fought for the surface . |
| 21 | It was not that her therapist was possessed of unusual wisdom or insight and that Scarlet had learned from her : it was just that Scarlet had discerned her way of thought and her approach to the problems which beset the insecure and so found her entirely predictable . |
| 22 | She feels deeply rejected by a man who was in fact very shy , and apparently found it extremely hard to express himself affectionately . |
| 23 | The truth is that Mark had always known him as Steven and naturally found it ridiculous to change to Morrissey . |
| 24 | For Celia Fiennes , a few years later , it was a favourite town by which she judged all others — and generally found them wanting . |
| 25 | Mr Wakil drew attention in Parliament to ‘ quite a few other developing countries ’ which had embarked on television in some haste and already found it too costly ; Tanzania , he said , would have the sense to learn from their experience . |
| 26 | Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics |
| 27 | She and Earl Spencer worked on a book for the Greater London Council called What is Our Heritage ? and soon found they had much in common . |
| 28 | The fired guitarist did not mope and soon found himself playing in two Leeds groups , U.V And The Free Radicals and The Chorus . |
| 29 | More immediately , according to his biographer , Izaak Walton , he was persuaded by his landlady during this visit to London that he was a man of tender constitution who needed a wife to prolong his life and make it more comfortable ; because of his modesty and dim sight , Hooker left the choice to her , and soon found himself married to her daughter . |
| 30 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |