Example sentences of "found a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 2 | This aside , when the reader has found a monograph , what will it contain ? |
| 3 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 4 | One City caterer has found a novel use for it in the larder . |
| 5 | From Channel 4 's inception , he has encouraged talents that never previously found a place within the mainstream television , in particular through the workshop movement , but also on an international scale through regular features and documentaries from the Third World . |
| 6 | Look , I 've found a hostel that will take you for one night . |
| 7 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 8 | And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with . |
| 9 | Hoped to God she had found a leaf somewhere . |
| 10 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 11 | Perhaps he had found a new temporary partner by now . |
| 12 | But this year , she thought with satisfaction , she was well-prepared ; and Rodney had found a much larger place than usual and invited all and sundry to join them . |
| 13 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 14 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |
| 15 | Ashton has also found a delicious use for the ordinary class-room petits battements sur le cou depied when Cinderella parodies the Ugly Sisters ' dancing lesson . |
| 16 | Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets . |
| 17 | But in the opening paragraphs of Crime and Punishment consciousness has found a home in the unnamed and very physical young man who leaves his stuffy little top room and slips downstairs like a cat , out into the street . |
| 18 | On the inside back cover can be found a crafted allegory . |
| 19 | Yet the Labour leader has finally found a theme which can appeal to traditional Labour voters and , more crucially , also to those voters from the political centre who now feel disenfranchised . |
| 20 | THE much-maligned men of the Jockey Club have found a ‘ sugar daddy ’ to boost their image with a little cosmetic surgery . |
| 21 | A TWO-WOMAN firm based in east London believes it has found a niche in the staff recruitment market by acting as a broker between companies and recruitment agencies . |
| 22 | But since the stock market has not yet found a consistent way of valuing the property based content of retailers ' profits , it is progress on the high street that will dominate Sears ' share rating and the news , particularly from footwear , is not encouraging . |
| 23 | ‘ It was quite appalling and , had we known it was going to happen , I 'm certain we would have found a different way of dealing with our problem . ’ |
| 24 | He had not found a single Tory MP who disagreed with his efforts to ameliorate the introduction of the tax in England and Wales next April . |
| 25 | Jeanette Lamb , a research team member at the Institute of Molecular Medicine , John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , said : ‘ We have found a cause for mental retardation that may account for a large proportion of the unexplained cases . ’ |
| 26 | S&N , not for the first time , enjoyed a heady ferment as , once again , the market was gripped by the story that the Elders ' 23.7 per cent shareholding had found a new home . |
| 27 | The charred and severed remains of Miss Ward , 28 , were found a year ago in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya , in an out-of-the-way spot , six miles from her abandoned vehicle . |
| 28 | Until Lloyds Abbey Life has found a replacement for Mr Seymour , Stephen Maran , finance director , will have responsibility for Abbey Life ( Ireland ) and Gary Jones , sales and marketing director , will look after continental Europe , which includes the German subsidiary . |
| 29 | I have found a seat on flights from way down in the ‘ relegation zone ’ on standby lists , simply because there was one space left and the couples above my name loyally refused to split up . |
| 30 | My one reservation concerns their performance on wet rock — however I 've never found a sole that really grips well on it . |