Example sentences of "they found a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they found a tanker and stand-pipe , also a stall where bread was being doled out . |
| 2 | At a 12-hour meeting that ended early on March 21st , they found a compromise . |
| 3 | As it turned out he did n't make that phone call until the evening and they found a call-box outside a pub in one of the villages , for Great-Uncle Hilbert 's phone had been disconnected . |
| 4 | We called friends in Australia and amazingly , they found a cylinder we could rent and shipped it to Darwin . |
| 5 | When researchers analysed the air in the tower , they found a sulphur oxyfluoride , SO2F2 . |
| 6 | They found a brandy glass in the kitchen and the door open . |
| 7 | Two weeks later , they found a tent . |
| 8 | So anyway , they found a quarter gram upstairs and wanted to do both of us for it . |
| 9 | The following morning Melissa drove Iris as usual to Les Châtaigniers , where they found a state of confusion . |
| 10 | whereas it looks as though , you know this chap , they found a way to make sure there 's no metal in it and now the machine it |
| 11 | In one hotel they found a man who had been mugged twice , young people who had been threatened with a knife and a newly-wed husband who had had his wedding ring pulled off his fingers by local thieves . |
| 12 | the phone goes this morning , hop of Daisy , goes to answer it , Santa 's Grotto he says , a member of the public phoning to say that they found a child 's bag in the high street . |
| 13 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 14 | Gregory and Lock were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang international airport on February 6 when police said they found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin . |
| 15 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 16 | When the Israelite desert tribes entered Canaan , they found a land not only flowing with milk and honey , but full of weeping and laughter in its religious rituals , quite different from anything they had known . |
| 17 | On that floor they found a variety of soft drinks , and took some bottles of lemonade , soda water and Irn Bru , and also half a bottle of Gordon 's gin . |
| 18 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 19 | When auditors did arrive they found a deficit of £28,000 , for , in the absence of a bank , Haines had used the Treasury for political and administrative expenses without keeping proper records . |
| 20 | If they found a passage which they thought had a bearing on the issue in this case , that passage would have to be construed in the light of the proceedings as a whole . |
| 21 | ‘ When they found a policeman at the pay-off they must have panicked , ’ Major Volpi had remarked to Di Leonardo when they arrived together at the scene in a Carabinieri helicopter . |
| 22 | After a short search they found a half brick made of concrete and went over to the water through . |
| 23 | And when security forces were called in they found a booby trap device containing one 1lb of Semtex explosives under the car . |
| 24 | Miss Sherwin said : ‘ In the front bedroom they found a quantity of uniforms , two empty gun cases and a bag full of ammunition . |
| 25 | When the girls waited at the Gare de L'Est , they found a garden surrounding a church , and Peta wrote as Isobel painted . |
| 26 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 27 | Years later Emma Upcher wrote of her parents , ‘ They found a spot they thought a paradise and there they began to build their ‘ bower' ’ . ' |
| 28 | Eventually they found a spot , away from the track but on the edge of one of the many glades in the forest . |
| 29 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 30 | They found a restaurant in a side street , where they would be pestered less , and took an outside table . |