Sentence examples for found a cockroach from inspiring English sources

Bossa nova artists tended to be the backroom players of American show business, their roles reduced to providing novelty to the acts of performers such as Pat Boone and Sammy Davis, junior.So that morning in Mr Oliveira's office, he evidently found a cockroach waiting inside the top drawer of his desk.

Out of Her Shell Most New Yorkers would be hard pressed to find a cockroach endearing.

"The athletes that they are catching...like, you know, how if you find a cockroach in your apartment there are probably a thousand behind the cupboard you are not seeing and it's the same with this," she explains.

It's essentially the story of a woman who comes into a room in her home, finds a cockroach coming out of a wardrobe, and kills the cockroach.

Scully provides Mulder with a logical explanation (that this is a case of Ekbom's syndrome or delusional parasitosis) but he finds a cockroach on the underside of a piece of furniture.

All the downsides of urban living are supposed to be behind me, so I was somewhat alarmed to peer over at the bathroom counter (oh, and I have counters. Bite my ass, pedestal sinks!) to find a cockroach the size of a small egg roll hanging out near my soap dish.

The year before, a father from Coventry found a tropical cockroach in his Asda bananas.

By Sherman Alexie A few years ago, after I returned home to Seattle from a trip to Los Angeles, I unpacked my bag and found a dead cockroach, shrouded by a dirty sock, in a corner.

The buyer says they found a bunch of cockroaches in the walls and drops the price.

Tucking into a snack provided by the hotel, midfielder Gordan Cowans opened a bread roll up only to find a dead cockroach inside.

In terms of counts of cockroaches, in New York City Brenner et al. (2003) found a 50% reduction at 6 months in cockroach populations in their intervention group and no change in the control group.