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Example sentences of "find him [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’
2	One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart .
3	There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed .
4	Then I heard him falling and hurried back to find him on the floor .
5	She went into Jack 's office to find him on the phone .
6	He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’
7	It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room .
8	The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ .
9	Here his former pupils , Sandys and Cranmer , found him with the Odes of Horace in his hand , tending his sheep .
10	‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly .
11	One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below .
12	I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma .
13	The next morning found him on the practice fields as soon as the sun was up , battering his post as though it were a mortal enemy .
14	We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice .
15	And they found him on the floor ?
16	They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow .
17	Easter Day 1945 found him in the darkness of a cattle truck in a German railway tunnel ; there was a true resurrection moment when prisoners were allowed out in to the sunshine and flowers of the railway cutting .
18	The 18th found him in the custody of two Maidenhead cavalry officers who took him back to Reading .
19	‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry .
20	What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ?
21	She flew around , looking for Prince William , found him in the kitchen , grabbed his arm and ran off through a side door .
22	He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes .
23	‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house .
24	I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night .
25	The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so .
26	A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station .
27	She found him in the kitchen , a big L-shaped room , like the house , dominated by an Aga cooker at one end , and a round table set in the shorter alcove .
28	‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy .
29	The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing .
30	Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked .