Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] found [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 2 | Cramped on the ground he tried to stretch and found his arms bound behind his back and his feet shackled in iron chains . |
| 3 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 4 | Melinda went to investigate and found it ruinous . |
| 5 | Have you ever started to speak and found yourself having to stop and take short breaths just to get through a sentence ? |
| 6 | She opened her mouth to speak and found she could n't . |