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Example sentences for "have found"

  • I have found it hard to hold the attention of sixth-year pupils in this part, but they ought to be familiar with a good encyclopedia and biographical dictionary, and the gazeteer.

  • And we have found it useful to have plenty of copies of especially interesting numbers of illustrated magazines like Outing and World's Work to give them.

  • We have found it much better to speak to a boy quietly when he is not with his companions.

  • We believe that we have found a most satisfactory way of meeting this situation.

  • Thank God, my lord, that I have found you!

  • I have found her, and when I have either succeeded in my attempt, or have found it altogether unavailing, it is my purpose to embark for the Virginia voyage.

  • I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.

  • I have found them, almost invariably, the vilest, meanest and basest of their class.

  • I have found it difficult to speak on this matter without persons coming forward and saying, "Douglass, are you not afraid of injuring the cause of Christ?

  • From my own experiments, I have found that a plate, by being galvanized, can be rendered more sensitive to the operation of the light in proportion of one to five, viz.

  • I have found in my experience that a single patch, about one and half inch square, will be better for cleaning a number of plates than a new piece for every plate.

  • If you had laughed and stepped aside an instant, or laughed and stayed where you were, Phil would have been back; or, if he needed punishment in your eyes, to have found me having one of his dances would have been enough.

  • I'd have found it out in a few more months if he had lived, and I wouldn't have borne it a day.

  • I am almost sure I have found an idea that will revolutionize the whole course of my work, thought, and ambitions.

  • I have found her so recently, and she is so precious, I can't risk losing her again.

  • And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant.

  • Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.

  • And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.

  • He turned simpering to Magdalen, and added, in a lower tone: "I have found a new interest in my walk, Miss Bygrave.

  • If it had been hidden in mist or drenched with rain, Mr. Noel Vanstone would, to all appearance, have found it as attractive as he found it now.

  • I have found a name I know--a name my father used often to speak of in his time.

  • I have not troubled myself to look; I have found it without looking.

  • Upon this Oudart put on his sacerdotal, and Loire and his wife their nuptial badges; Trudon piped it, and then tabored it like mad; all made haste to get ready, not forgetting the gauntlets.

  • Cornelius might be a broker, but we have found no scrip to correspond with these large payments.

  • When we have found who he is and who his associates are, we should have a good start in learning what he was doing in Pitt Street last night, and who it was who met him and killed him on the doorstep of Mr. Horace Harker.

  • Except for releasing the lady I will see that everything is kept exactly as I have found it, but I beg you not to lose an instant, as it is difficult to leave Sir Eustace there.

  • I thank my God, that thee upon this ground, Where I least hoped to meet thee, I have found.

  • Subsist they cannot openly among us, and yet elude the eyes of the inquisitive: and, as to their hiding, no man pretends to have found any of them in a torpid state in the winter.

  • Would he not have made use of this invaluable nostrum for his own emolument; or, at least, by some means of publication or other, have found a method of making it public for the good of mankind ?

  • Letter LIII To The Honourable Daines Barrington As I have sometimes known you make inquiries about several kinds of insects, I shall here send you an account of one sort which I little expected to have found in this kingdom.

  • I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

  • However, I have found an old shawl which answers for a table-cloth, and have made our "parlor" look a little more habitable.

  • Socrates professes to have found in Callicles the philosopher's touchstone; and he is certain that any opinion in which they both agree must be the very truth.

  • And Christian thinkers, who have ventured out of the beaten track in their meditations on the 'last things,' have found a ray of light in his writings.

  • To this is opposed the one wise man hardly professing to have found truth, yet strong in the conviction that a virtuous life is the only good, whether regarded with reference to this world or to another.

  • I have found that, coeteris paribus, a man's sobriety is in direct proportion to his cleanliness.

  • The origin of these divisions we have found in the hard and fast walls which mark off social groups and classes within a group: like those between rich and poor, men and women, noble and baseborn, ruler and ruled.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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