Example sentences of "[pers pn] was find the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 2 | Penny was usually a very bright and cheery Brownie , but she was finding the loss of her pet budgerigar very hard to bear . |
| 3 | Now she was finding the affluent West had its own poor and destitute : " There are so many sad and lost people — psychiatric , emotional , problems of insecurity and alienation . " |
| 4 | She was finding the party more trying than she expected , and told me to come and get her if I needed her for anything … |
| 5 | She was finding the presence of Sister Dew intolerable and could n't think why Mark and Sophia had invited her . |
| 6 | For some reason , she was finding the last few pages difficult to sort out . |
| 7 | Shelley Cameron could never be called strait-laced , but she was finding the atmosphere rather more lively than she was used to back in her little cottage on the sleepy borders between England and Scotland . |
| 8 | This meant that each small boy was accompanied to church by an older boy whose job it was to find the hymns and generally ensure good behaviour . |
| 9 | When at length they reached the expected doorway it was to find the door open . |
| 10 | When Charlotte had finished , emphasizing how vital it was to find the document the kidnappers wanted , Natasha poured them both more tea before she made any remark . |
| 11 | When I reached my office , cross and flustered , it was to find the office girls clustered round Mavis 's desk and Geoff Tulloch in the middle of them . |
| 12 | Bridget knew how important it was to find the author of the letter . |
| 13 | Pentos , he said on 31st December , was unlikely to find bookselling any easier than it was finding the difficult Athena and office furniture markets . |
| 14 | A mobile coastguard and the Cullercoats inshore lifeboat were called out but it was found the flare had been fired from the shore before youths were seen fleeing . |
| 15 | He was finding the wire hard to bend . |
| 16 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |
| 17 | His expression was unreadable , but she knew from the hot breath flowing over her breasts that he was finding the procedure as erotic as she was . |
| 18 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
| 19 | As it transpired though , he was to find the lease of the le Fleming mines unavailable . |