Example sentences of "[conj] had found " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of respondents had either never heard of the ATB or had found out about it by accident . |
| 2 | An amazing 98 of them stated they had lost inches from areas they had considered difficult to slim or had found impossible to reduce previously . |
| 3 | He 'd never ceased to find fascination within its pages , for it was Maybellome 's intention to make an encyclopaedia listing all the flora , fauna , languages , sciences , ideas , moral perspectives — in short , anything that occurred to her — that had found their way from the Fifth Dominion , the Place of the Succulent Rock , through to the other worlds . |
| 4 | The majority of the court , while dismissing many of the arguments that had found favour in Re Anschuetz and earlier cases , did little to advance the position from that reached by the Court of Appeals in Re Anschuetz . |
| 5 | There they found their beloved girl , surrounded by a horde of chimpanzees that had found and taken care of her . |
| 6 | She did not say more and when he came closer he saw that if it was sleep that had found her it was of a troubled nightmare kind , the sleep of the ill and the stressed . |
| 7 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 8 | It seemed strange , to have that old pamphlet by me , that tiny piece of a long-past England that had found its way to this Greek island , these pine trees , this pagan earth . |
| 9 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 10 | She followed its descent to the water 's edge , then looked across to where a high rock wall was studded with clumps of ferny growth that had found soil in crevices . |
| 11 | Many of the specimens that had found their way back to England only added to the myths circulating in the popular imagination about the fauna of the southern hemisphere . |
| 12 | Having discovered where Gabriel slept , he poked about in the hollow of the pageant cart , gathering up the tributes and luxuries that had found their way down into the dark . |
| 13 | By this time several of the aircraft crews that had found the Argosy made arrangements to ferry its crew and passengers to safety . |
| 14 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 15 | Even so , he managed to spend a Sunday sailing in a friend 's boat , had met a potter who was throwing a dinner service for him ( ‘ will you phone my father and ask him if he wants a coffee set as well ? ’ ) and had found ‘ some beautiful corduroys . |
| 16 | The farmer whose land they had been riding on had looked up his old racing programmes and had found the Newbury card listing the horse he said Bones reminded him of . |
| 17 | She said that she had visited the Forestry Commission 's premises earlier in the year , and had found them ‘ completely acceptable ’ as a polling station . |
| 18 | For some who made the journey into Wales , the experience was profound : on a warm summer night in 1791 William Wordsworth had climbed to the top of Snowdon to watch the sun rise , and had found there an intensity of natural beauty which he never forgot . |
| 19 | This was important to her as she was self-supporting and had found it tough going in the last two years . |
| 20 | He said he had spent four days taking rock samples in the area of the dam and had found that there were interconnected limestone layers above and below the dam site through which the water might leak away . |
| 21 | Pesaro knew Famagusta , and had found others who could describe the walls , and their thickness , and their character . |
| 22 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 23 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 24 | He had gone up as usual to turn Willie 's lamp down and had found him sitting up in bed with one of his library books lying open on his knees . |
| 25 | She had even taken a small part at a provincial theatre until pregnancy again intervened , and had found that she was not forgotten , that Dinah Asshe could become Dinah Arkwright and be the same woman . |
| 26 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 27 | She herself had never been a woman to dote on babies and had found her own daughter much more interesting as she grew older . |
| 28 | She sat down in the one comfortable chair ; it had come from their housekeeper 's room , and had found its way to Billy 's kitchen , like the strip of Turkey carpet with the hole in the middle . |
| 29 | Alas , many others had already made their judgment on the flimsy evidence of that supposed phone call … and had found the next King guilty . |
| 30 | Mrs Cass said she had bought many of her pets but had taken some abandoned by their owners and had found others running wild in the street . |