Example sentences of "they have found [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allison Gregg and Alan Neale thought they 'd found their dream home when they paid £43,000 for their flat at Ross on Wye in Herefordshire . |
| 2 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 3 | Fiona told us on the way to the races that the police had phoned Harry to say they 'd found his car in the station car park at Reading . |
| 4 | They 've found her car , too — I 'll have to go and look at it before they take it away . ’ |
| 5 | But several disabled readers have written to tell me that though they 've found their perfect partner , physical handicaps mean sexual fulfilment is often very difficult . |
| 6 | A.R.R. until they 've found their sea-legs . |
| 7 | The fake Doc Martens were seized in Hong Kong … and now they 've found their way to the Oxfam Emergency Warehouse in Bicester . |
| 8 | They 've found their support in their large family . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've found your Inspector Leeming . |
| 10 | Suppose , after all , that he had not gone to look and in the morning they had found her stiff and cold in her cot , her eyes glazed and unfocused , her lips blue ? |
| 11 | Jackals and martens could hardly have lifted the latch and , even if they had found their way in , there would have been signs of a scuffle : dead chickens , scattered feathers . |
| 12 | And that now at last , they had found their perfect heroine , Jacqueline Kennedy . |
| 13 | After the liberation they had found their old apartment undamaged , moved back in and set about recreating their old life of searching out young artists , arranging exhibitions for them and building up their own collection of European art . |
| 14 | They had found their own solution to the humanist problem of mating music with words in musique mesurée , the influence of which lingered on although it was no longer practised with doctrinaire thoroughness , and the air de cour with lute accompaniment flourished to the near exclusion of polyphonic song , though some of the published lute airs were obviously based on polyphonic originals . |
| 15 | New boys were excused fagging for a fortnight until they had found their feet . |
| 16 | There was no hurry now they had found their retreat . |
| 17 | Present and former trainees throughout the country were asked whether they had found their courses useful , and whether they had enabled them to find jobs . |
| 18 | If they had found my works , I 'd still be there . ’ |
| 19 | They had found his fingerprints everywhere . |
| 20 | Now scientists believe they have found their remains |
| 21 | As a natural consequence of the participant observation method , some situations which are highly successful recording sessions can leave the observer feeling unhappy that they have found their way on to a permanent record . |