Example sentences of "found the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me a duty to pay homage to those Jews who , in desperate conditions , had found the courage and the skill to resist . |
| 2 | If I am bored then I have not found the way to do what I wanted to do . |
| 3 | ‘ What would you know ? ’ demanded Thomas , the under-footman , jealous that it had been she who had found the body when she went into the bedroom with the morning tray of tea and biscuits . |
| 4 | His observational sample of prisoner interviews , although small , had found the PACE codes of practice were followed to the letter and he argued this showed that it required the sanction of the law to effect changes in interview and interrogation techniques . |
| 5 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 6 | But , having used a number of different twin stem units I 've found the single wire stem much more versatile , although sometimes a little harder to remove from stubborn placements . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you have found the right word for it , ’ Jonathan Martin , head of sport at the BBC , says . |
| 8 | I 've found the increasing dogmatism and certainty that she 's right the most sinister thing about her because that so often goes with paranoid feelings , and it may be that this is one manifestation of that . |
| 9 | As a star opera director whose career is becoming increasingly orientated towards the theatre , it is understandable that he has n't often found the time to stray from the great metropolises to mount a production . |
| 10 | Researchers in Oxford have found the first evidence of a genetic cause for unexplained mental retardation in children . |
| 11 | Even more amazing , he is alleged to have told confidants before he died last month that , far from being the spoils of two decades of looting the Treasury , he had found the 400 tons of bullion just after the war in a northern province of the Philippines . |
| 12 | POLICE have found the van belonging to a murdered social worker half-a-mile from the drugs centre where her battered body was found . |
| 13 | For this production he believes that he has found the Shylock to replace Zero Mostel . |
| 14 | Close said he had found the meeting ‘ very instructive ’ . |
| 15 | African leaders who recognise that it may be difficult to impose any further sanctions believe they have found the way forward . |
| 16 | I have never found the perfect answer . |
| 17 | Archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre , where Hamlet was given its first performance . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ I replied , ‘ have n't found the right one yet . |
| 19 | Those who read the highbrow press would probably have found the lowbrow tabloids woefully inadequate , but those who read the tabloids would probably have found the highbrow press too complex , long-winded , repetitious , waffling , and boring to be useful . |
| 20 | Those who read the highbrow press would probably have found the lowbrow tabloids woefully inadequate , but those who read the tabloids would probably have found the highbrow press too complex , long-winded , repetitious , waffling , and boring to be useful . |
| 21 | I question whether we have yet found the secret . |
| 22 | This brings me at once to what I have always found the most impressive fact about the evidence on this subject : its ambiguity , not to say its neutrality . |
| 23 | They had found the answer to the American conundrum , and they assured themselves that no other people on earth would have had the qualities necessary to do so . |
| 24 | According to Doyle : ‘ in principle , a publishing company would marry up a lyricist with a music writer , but I have never found the opportunity or the talent to do it . ’ |
| 25 | I have found the place of peace . |
| 26 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 27 | He has found the management problems in each sector to be remarkably similar . |
| 28 | They told me they 'd found the source and they were going to prosecute the offender . |
| 29 | But I can assure you appropriate action will be taken when we have found the guilty party … ’ |
| 30 | Having created a viciously oppressive system of laws and rules , the government has found the right sort of people to operate it . |