Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] find [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Access card had been found at a meeting of the Liberal Democrats for Eastern Region contracts , and , M S Sue Sutton , who was a candidate for |
| 2 | Blood had been found on the clothing of Henry and Francis Tidbury . |
| 3 | The second key piece of information was that Angela Morgan 's car had been found in North Kensington , not far from her flat , and was now cordoned off and being crawled over inch by inch by a forensic team hastily dispatched by Davidson . |
| 4 | First , a gap had been found at the bottom end of the market , conveying ( or transferring ) small terraced houses with local authority mortgages . |
| 5 | Having no evidence against the defendant , they falsely asserted that his fingerprint had been found in an incriminating place in order to elicit admissions from him . |
| 6 | When he published Parachute Padre , Fraser McLuskey mentioned the fact that to that day no trace had been found of the missing plane . |
| 7 | Ekeus confirmed on Oct. 22 in London that US-made nuclear weapons equipment had been found in Iraq . |
| 8 | As lack of discipline at home had been found to be important to later sociopathy , she recommended improved discipline at school for such at-risk youngsters : a more vigorous role in preventing truancy , supervision for completion of assignments , controlled use of leisure time and so on . |
| 9 | She said the present structure of ‘ regular , structured and systematic ’ inspections must be kept , and said considerable abuse had been found in schools . |
| 10 | Three keys attached to a metal disc had been found in the pocket of the woman 's coat . |
| 11 | He could not take over the South Metropolitan until a suitable post had been found for Mr. Mason . |
| 12 | In 1972 , less than 16 per cent of this age group had been found to be upwardly mobile as against 60 per cent who retained their working class positions ( p. 18 ) . |
| 13 | As I pulled in at the ambulance building , the switchboard had just received a message that a dead body had been found in Cathedral Road . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard rumours in the street that a child 's body had been found in the river and I asked the police . |
| 15 | Modems in Computer Room had been found to be incompatible with our telephone system and should be disposed of . |
| 16 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 17 | She said that all MPs must take advice on personal security very seriously for the sake of themselves and their families ; Gow 's name had been found on an IRA death list discovered in a south London flat in December 1988 . |
| 18 | The previous week the man and his wife had been found in bed , dead . |
| 19 | He said that no mechanical or electrical defect had been found in the lift after the accident . |
| 20 | The row broke out in the Commons after Tory MP Robin Squire claimed Labour party propaganda had been found beside a Commons photocopier . |
| 21 | Confusing the issue still further , a piece of metal had been found during cleaning with the number 42–106918 clearly written on it in pencil . |
| 22 | A statement from the Stevens team said a number of photo-montages and some ammunition had been found during searches of the homes of UDR members . |
| 23 | The main potato store had been found by some of the humans , which was perhaps why the poison had been put down . |
| 24 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 25 | The Mountie said grudgingly that a blood-covered rolled-up sheet of plastic had been found on the track near the area where Angelica must have been battered , and it could have been used as a poncho , and it was being investigated for blood type and fingerprints . |
| 26 | The first three lads had been arrested almost three weeks earlier because an unlicensed pistol had been found in a car in which they were travelling . |
| 27 | The sibilance of his whispering voice and the recollection that a certain man had been found with his throat cut , turned Dolly rigid in the bed . |
| 28 | She had left London on June 6 , a date that had cropped up twice before , though with no apparent connection with anything else — it was the day after Andrew Stavanger 's last known appearance at the office , and the day on which the body of the still unidentified man had been found by Southwark Bridge . |
| 29 | The man had been found near Southwark Bridge at the turn of the tide : he had grounded at low tide , and it had been assumed that he had been carried down river with the ebb . |
| 30 | On May 13th at a meeting of a special sub-committee , it was reported that various articles of furniture had been found in the master 's apartments . |