Example sentences of "found it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constable traced the sheep to his house and found it hung up and dressed in his stable . |
| 2 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 3 | But when she got to the flat she found it ransacked . |
| 4 | We found it buried in the grass and it obviously been put there deliberately to maim . |
| 5 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 6 | Now , she found it made her preen . |
| 7 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 8 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 9 | He opened a second door , which again had an elegant stained glass transom above it , and Belinda found it led to an open veranda that must connect with the one they had sat on for drinks . |
| 10 | With Prime Minister 's Question Time at last over , those of us waiting to catch the Parkinson statement now found it had been further held up while one of the defence ministers made a laborious job of unwrapping the Ministry of Defence 's Christmas present for the navy — three new frigates . |
| 11 | They found it had not been modified in any way and could not operate on the 27–28 MHz frequency ( the FM Citizens ' Band ) . |
| 12 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 13 | He found it had n't . |
| 14 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 15 | After introducing it to an 18″ x 12″ aquarium I soon found it had re-arranged the substrate to form a small barricade at the front of the tank . |
| 16 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 17 | ‘ I found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned. he had obviously lent it to her . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I got out a ball gown to lend to a neighbour and found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Straight away though , despite the technical wizardry of the medium , he found it had its limitations . |
| 20 | We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws . |
| 21 | Driving the Felder , I looked back towards the ranch and found it had disappeared . |
| 22 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 23 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 24 | A man who momentarily left a computer game outside his house in Greenbank Road , Darlington , found it had been stolen when he returned . |
| 25 | ‘ Certainly found it cured a few problems , ’ André finished for her . |
| 26 | She glanced at his face and found it engrossed . |
| 27 | I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me . |
| 28 | Having dragged it over , she stood on it with care , and found it brought her eyes level with the frieze . |
| 29 | I found it clutched in Anna 's hand when we cleaned her up . |
| 30 | Indeed , he found it energizing . |