Example sentences of "he find [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he had his doubts about al-Megrahi — his ‘ answers to questions were not always convincing ’ — he found Fhimah ‘ a simple man , and it was hard to believe that he had been involved in a terrorist case . |
| 2 | Most of the visual ideas were imported but he found Ethel Helliwell brilliant at organizing the execution of them . |
| 3 | What if when her husband came home he found Kemp already dead , and then he did all this stuff , you know , to cover up for her ? ’ |
| 4 | He found Stenurus in all the other bodies of this stranding . |
| 5 | Despite his familiarity with the Masai , he found Tepilit 's obduracy insulting . |
| 6 | What did Drew do when he found Karen in the street ? |
| 7 | He found Leila and Ari in the canteen . |
| 8 | But Eliot , of whom he made some absurd insinuations , imputing plagiarism , told me later on that he found Belgion an exceedingly tiresome man to deal with . |
| 9 | Clare went immediately to pay the bill for the stone , and set out towards Shaston , where he found Mrs Durbeyfield and her children living in a small house . |
| 10 | When he returned with her to the Judge 's House two hours later , he found Mrs Wood waiting outside it . |
| 11 | He found Aunt Tossie most agreeable , and wondered if it was true that she was very rich . |
| 12 | He want into the huge dining room , where at last he found Alfred arranging bottles on the serving tables . |
| 13 | He found Joseph in the Hungerford area , where he had rented a small farm . |
| 14 | In fact he found Patrick 's grim determination not to be charmed rather amusing . |
| 15 | He said he found Tulse Hill |
| 16 | I do n't think he found Ward 's accent at all easy , and anyway , like many foreigners , he found it easier to speak English than to understand it . |
| 17 | Snapping another one back , he found Lewis lbw too and , same over , turned Pringle inside-out and hit his off stump . |
| 18 | But what she needed to hear from him was that he found Muriel as off-putting as she did : he certainly did n't like her , Alice knew that . |
| 19 | He found Catherine Crane competently and tactfully assisting with operations , and as he came to stand beside her realized she was so cold that she was almost shuddering . |
| 20 | There he found Anabelle curled up sound asleep . |
| 21 | He found Dougal in Celia 's little sitting room ; he was trying to persuade a shelf to lie flat on its brackets . |
| 22 | After Charlie had finished dressing , he found Sal and Kitty waiting for him by the front door , but he refused to allow them to accompany him to the station , despite their tearful protest . |
| 23 | He found Kersey , sitting at the desk in an upstair , borrowed office surrounded by house-to-house reports prepared on the premises . |
| 24 | He found McPhee guilty of abandoning the dog and wilfully neglecting him by failing to provide veterinary treatment . |
| 25 | He found Woodruffe with a tall , one-armed man in a raincoat and a bowler hat . |
| 26 | It was a further hour before he found Schmidt . |
| 27 | Newman accepted , not so much for financial reasons but because he found England , with its more polarised divisions of class and attitude , an irresistible challenge . |
| 28 | When Tom had finished , he found Willie gazing at him with adoration . |
| 29 | Under the bonnet he found Sparky the cat scrambling across the battery . |
| 30 | He found Phraxos ‘ pittoresque , mais moins belle que Délos ’ . |