Example sentences of "he [vb mod] find the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if the reader can find the patience to continue , he may find the variations in the repetition interesting and even helpful . |
| 2 | He may find the home which he has regarded as his Englishman 's castle invaded , occupied or even demolished about his ears . |
| 3 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 4 | What 's so terrible for IMP in that ? ’ she blustered , still bewildered why he should find the idea of it so important . |
| 5 | The reader may question , but he must find the answer for himself ( if indeed it is there ) . |
| 6 | He 'll find the sources from one of his various contacts . |
| 7 | He might find the ladies behind the counter ‘ large and ugly ’ ( his words ) , but most chippies I 've frequented are family owned and the service comes with a smile , even if the figure is rather rotund . |
| 8 | He might lose himself in the books sometimes , but he might find the Key there , too . |
| 9 | On the way it had occurred to him that he might find the police at Adam 's . |
| 10 | We thought he might find the house was too big for him , sell it and buy something smaller . |
| 11 | When her future brother-in-law asked where he could find the Duchess of Westminster , the wife of Britain 's richest aristocrat , she joked : ‘ Oh Andrew , do stop name dropping . ’ |
| 12 | I 've also heard Councillor er being , er er quoted in the press , as saying that he could find the money for capital schemes . |
| 13 | There was something he had to do , and he did n't know if he could find the courage . |
| 14 | He resigned from the Temple ; and to provide for the needs of his rapidly increasing family he was appointed as Rector of Boscom and prebendary of Salisbury , with the apparent understanding that he would continue to reside mainly in London , where he could find the books which he required for his great work , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity . |
| 15 | If only he could find the switch to throw or the knob to turn that would liberate the real potential of communism . |
| 16 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 17 | Was it possible that Charles ' previous luck could be repeated and he 'd find the door to the utility room open ? |
| 18 | However , he had persevered with the task and accepted it could be a while before he would find the kind of job he wanted . |
| 19 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 20 | After my mother had obligingly betrayed all my confidences to him in my hearing , he said he would find the man — Michael , that is — and compel him to marry me . |
| 21 | Through the summer of 1929 he complained to Dobrée of roasting in the modern city 's horrors ( yet wondered if he would find the country any more bearable ) . |
| 22 | Fifthly I can tell him that that will pay for over two hundred thousand cataracts operations or over seventy thousand hip operations and sixthly I will ask him to tell me where he would find the money . |
| 23 | They were trying to wear him down , but they would fail ; he would find the Key , he would find the Way Out and escape from this joke , this awful solitary confinement for Heroes ; he would leave them all behind and take his rightful place in the greater reality again . |
| 24 | He would see it through , he would find the Way Out , And he might not even stop at simply escaping ; he might just smash up the whole foul contraption of their testing and imprisonment apparatus — this " life " — while he was about It . |
| 25 | Charles bit on his lower lip and looked to the side as if there he would find the answer to the question ; then shook his head , saying , ‘ You know , I could n't say . ’ |
| 26 | When Rowlandson returned in the afternoon he would find the shadows all dexterously transferred to the plate by means of the aquatint . |
| 27 | Cunningham had strengthened his belief that if he could only follow the clues for which Heather 's photographs were somehow emblems he would find the truth — and Heather with it . |
| 28 | They were trying to wear him down , but they would fail ; he would find the Key , he would find the Way Out and escape from this joke , this awful solitary confinement for Heroes ; he would leave them all behind and take his rightful place in the greater reality again . |
| 29 | But his latest third there behind Cool Ground in the Greenalls Gold Cup suggests he will find the Gold Cup winner too strong again on these terms . |
| 30 | If those interests are engaged with the law respecting the poor wretches who were arraigned for sorcery and witchcraft , he will find the law and the social background most luminously expounded in the prefatory note to L.A. contra Agnes Finnie ( pp 627–636 ) . |