Example sentences of "he found [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house .
2 He found its heavy odour suffocating .
3 He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead , the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated .
4 He found her in a small kitchen .
5 One day he found her being rolled across canvas by two women in overalls .
6 She seemed annoyed about this : ‘ But he went on his rounds earlier than he should have done , see , and so he found her before me .
7 He found her quietly working in her office , surveying the extent of her financial empire on a monitor screen .
8 He not only found her annoying ; he found her entirely and mysteriously offensive . ’
9 He found her at the Borrehus at Falster where Søren , her third husband , manned the ale taps and where she ferried peasants and their cattle across the sound .
10 He found her :
11 Although the main thing was that he now had clear proof that she was alive , he could see a lot more work ahead before he found her , if he ever found her .
12 He found her , with the giants , and urged her to return with him to the depths .
13 Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones .
14 When he came home he found her peering into the well of his top hat .
15 He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea .
16 When he found her at Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent Pounds 68,000 on the house next door .
17 He found her a chilly woman .
18 He found her in the parlour , doing nothing , seated with her pale skirts spread about her .
19 When he looked up at her , he found her regarding him with a troubled frown over the rim of her coffee cup .
20 He found her with the knife in her neck .
21 When Ludo returned , he found her still dreamily lying on the bed .
22 They played a lively game of Hide ‘ N ’ Seek , where the little hedgehog would crawl away to hide in the weeds or under pile of leaves and the big beast would seek her out and bark loudly when he found her .
23 At that time , he had offered to give her more extensive treatments — apparently , he found her a promising subject but she had n't had the cold kish to lay out .
24 The Collector 's chivalry was aroused by Miriam 's weakness , for the heart of a gentleman still beat beneath his ragged morning coat ; besides , he found her an attractive young woman in spite of everything , for she could still smile as sweetly as ever .
25 When she was thrown out of her digs he found her a room in Randolph Crescent and to get her on to her feet again paid her rent for a month .
26 In such a case he would be bound to take the woman as he found her , if sued by her , and her pregnancy would be just as much a a physical condition in his victim as would be the case of a person having an eggshell skull .
27 Branson spent a frantic evening phoning around friends until he found her , and persuaded her to return .
28 Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor .
29 He found her walking along a path through the fields .
30 ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked .
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