Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] found " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I entered our kitchen Mum stared at me , dumbounded , until she recovered and found her voice . |
| 2 | ‘ She lived and found powerful friends . |
| 3 | She woke and found herself alone in the bed ; a door closed and she identified the sound . |
| 4 | She grew a little confused as to which was day and which was night , and increasingly wanted Alexandra there , calling for her in her faint cracked voice , if she woke and found her customary chair empty . |
| 5 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 6 | ‘ I was really upset but she came and found me later , ’ said Tessa . |
| 7 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 8 | Eventually she stirred and found her voice . |
| 9 | She turned and found Jimmy Warren behind her with a young girl dressed similarly to him in jeans and a leather jacket , her red hair wild and tousled . |
| 10 | She nodded and found her mouth had twisted into a smile . |
| 11 | She shuddered and found herself whispering : ‘ Make it back to base , Johnny . |
| 12 | At her inquest this afternoon he said he 'd visited the streets where she worked and found it dangerous even in daylight . |
| 13 | Jill wanted to get Bill a birthday present , so she went and found her piggy-bank ; she shook it , but there was no noise ; she would have to make Bill a present This example comes from work in artificial intelligence ( Charniak , 1972 ) which is concerned with the attempt to translate the significance of ordinary utterances into an explicit representation that might be used by a computer to produce " intelligent " responses . |
| 14 | She went and found Bob . |
| 15 | Adam could truthfully tell Elinor that he read every word she wrote and found her books absorbing . |
| 16 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 17 | With her other hand she groped and found the switch . |