Example sentences of "[Wh pn] found [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 who found her sadly confused .
2 Clearly , for those who found they actually did suffer from smelly clothes — evidently a lot of people — the ads struck an immediate and powerful chord .
3 In her wake came the likes of Chrissie Hynde , who found it easier just to wear the trousers .
4 ‘ Oh , quite a lot , ’ said Jean , who found it rather hard to explain the number of duels , pursuits on horseback , quick changes of identity and narrow escapes from the authorities he had experienced by the age of twenty-four .
5 November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout .
6 Such ventures , however , left out those who were most disturbed or withdrawn and hence who found it most difficult to work ; these were left to idle their time away on the wards , and it was always a struggle to find sufficient financial investment in equipment and raw materials to establish and maintain occupational ventures .
7 Ingrid was the one who found it most awkward .
8 A week ago I saw a monkey in the street jump on a donkey and try to wank him off — the donkey brayed and kicked , the monkey 's owner shouted , the monkey itself squealed — apart from two or three children who laughed and me who found it very funny , no one paid any attention .
9 " My contribution , " he said , perhaps anxiously , to his daughter , who found it almost impossible to kiss him across the barrier made by these objects and her own girth .
10 But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead .
11 Everyone was given equal space and care was given to those of us who found it more difficult because of being deaf or having a speech difficulty .
12 Additionally , private landlords became marginalized politically ; industrialists had not extended the housing market and private landlords were drawn largely , though not entirely , from the lower middle class — the very people who found it more and more difficult to establish their position on local councils , bearing in mind , at least , the new element of organized labour via the Trades Councils .
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