Example sentences of "he found [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIREFIGHTERS yesterday freed a four-year-old who trapped his thumb in the bracket of a car wing mirror he found while playing . |
| 2 | Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them . |
| 3 | He found that his feet had cramped in a clench of anguish . |
| 4 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 5 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 6 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 7 | Although he found that television is far less violent than in Japan , the United States , France or West Germany , Dr Tadecki intends to campaign with Mary Whitehouse to curb violence on the screen . |
| 8 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 9 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |
| 10 | He found that he could make a speech — that is , he could think on his feet , and not be at a loss for words . |
| 11 | When asked by Geoffrey Fisher to explain his reasons , he found that he had difficulty in finding a reason . |
| 12 | Accustomed at home to Congregational worship and at school to the Book of Common Prayer , he found that he liked the Common Prayer better . |
| 13 | He found that the rooms next door were occupied by Selwyn Lloyd , whom he discovered to be like himself a strong Liberal and with whom he was therefore soon friends . |
| 14 | He found that he was now sensitive to a new series of demands and worries and was liable to be hurt in new ways , and he suffered moments with a sense of futility . |
| 15 | He found that the canonry and the cathedral , and the administration in the university , took up a lot of time . |
| 16 | If he found that the archbishop disliked a nomination , he coolly referred it back to Downing Street . |
| 17 | He found that in such a place present was near to past and visible near to the invisible world . |
| 18 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 19 | He found that he could pay a compliment to Charles Raven , from whom he was so sadly sundered in spirit , for his book on Religion and Science . |
| 20 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 21 | Between 1957 and 1979 he found that on such economic inputs as minimum lending rate , public-sector borrowing requirement , and public spending as a proportion of GDP and on economic outcomes such as inflation , unemployment , and growth , the record showed long-term secular trends , regardless of changes of government . |
| 22 | The King therefore saw Samuel before Baldwin ; and Samuel gave the advice which the Sovereign wanted to hear , namely that if MacDonald proved unable to carry his Cabinet , the best solution to the crisis would be a National Government , led by MacDonald , ‘ unless he found that he could not carry with him a sufficient number of his colleagues ’ . |
| 23 | When he sat down again after the election to resume his theoretical work , The Treatise on Money , he found that his theory had changed . |
| 24 | As Pearce progressed in his career , he found that there was a discernible shift in his management priorities . |
| 25 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 26 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 27 | When Frankenberg went to carry out anthropological research in a village on the Welsh borders in the early 1950s he found that the village football team provided ‘ a symbol of village unity and cohesion against the outside world ’ and had ‘ a central place in village social activity ’ . |
| 28 | He found that he could n't go out with the lads anymore , and he felt he 'd lost his happy-go-lucky side . |
| 29 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 30 | Precious Link was 2lb out of the handicap and trainer Bill Turner got a mild shock when he found that Davies was also putting up 3lb overweight . |