Example sentences of "she found [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mary came out , she found him standing still with his back to the sun , looking down the river towards the shady woodlands round Grandtully . |
| 2 | She found him attentive , intelligent , even charming , but with a distinct sense of separateness and pride that she found refreshingly unlike any of the other local men she had known . |
| 3 | In many respects she found him an enigma . |
| 4 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 5 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 6 | She found him in Reception talking on the telephone . |
| 7 | And Max Jacob was there to help her , she informs her readers She found him far more useful and reliable in household matters than Modigliani . |
| 8 | She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting . |
| 9 | She found him utterly sympathetic and charming . |
| 10 | She found him a new toothbrush in its unbroken wrap , and said , ‘ It 's a pity about Sir George . |
| 11 | She found him in his kitchen , immersed in the newspaper spread out before him on the table . |
| 12 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
| 13 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
| 15 | Victoria was not one to yield up the authority of the Crown too readily and continued throughout her reign to assert it on occasion , such as objecting to the appointment of the nominee of a Prime Minister to a Ministry where she found him personally objectionable . |
| 16 | She found him again later that night and took him into her bed . |
| 17 | She found him another job and is paying for a private nurse . |
| 18 | She found him lying in a pool of blood in his cot . |
| 19 | Whatever he was , she found him charming and exasperating at the same time and no , she did n't think her relationship would last because you ca n't keep mercury in your hand , not for long . |
| 20 | She found him physically attractive , but his languid , elegant and mannered demeanour irritated her . |
| 21 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 22 | She did n't know what she was going to do when she found him , but that did not matter right now . |
| 23 | She found him very rewarding ; he fed well and was thriving . |
| 24 | He drives a £20,000 TVR sports car , dresses in ‘ designer ’ gear — and she found him fun . |
| 25 | At last she found him . |
| 26 | He did not find her amusing , and she found him quite disastrously dull . |
| 27 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 28 | And , in November , she found him . |
| 29 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 30 | She found him charming and stimulating and good company . |