Example sentences of "he found a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found a link for five out of ten categories of leukaemias and lymphomas . |
| 2 | In the store cupboard , he found a can of beef stew and dumped it in a saucepan to heat . |
| 3 | It was with some relief that he found a village which actually admitted it was called Short Soham . |
| 4 | The next morning , though , he found a message on his desk from Paul , asking if they could meet for a drink at lunchtime at the Club . |
| 5 | He leafed through a pile of documents until he found a sheet of paper torn from an exercise book . |
| 6 | He left the corner and trekked a few blocks east until he found a bar , where he put two bourbons down his throat , and wished to his core that alcohol and not the opposite sex had been his addiction . |
| 7 | Basically , he found a Stone Age culture dying out . |
| 8 | In his pocket he found a screwdriver and inspected the narrow end as if he were a surgeon about to perform a delicate operation . |
| 9 | As soon as he could , he found a phone booth . |
| 10 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 11 | It was almost predictable that a perfectionist like Pérignon would not rest until he found a bottle strong enough to withstand the internal pressure exerted by a sparkling wine . |
| 12 | Her husband says he found a photographer hiding in some bushes by his house . |
| 13 | He once told me that he found a company of not more than eleven people the most congenial . |
| 14 | But everywhere he found a paranoia about photography . |
| 15 | He drove past until he found a rest area : just a track behind trees and a few picnic tables . |
| 16 | And er he X-rayed that portrait and he found a portrait of Edward de Vere under that portrait , purportedly of Shakespeare , and then rather alerted , he went to work on the outer portrait and er he took particular care over the signet ring , and er that contains the de Vere boar . |
| 17 | He found a branch of the dangerous Cenomani among the Volcae not far from Marseilles . |
| 18 | When Branson arrived at Hill 's office at EMI later that day , he found a man desperate to rid himself of an embarrassment . |
| 19 | He found a man keeping geese in his kitchen and a woman with a typewriter in a turret . ’ |
| 20 | On the next floor , he found a toilet , slipped in and lit a cigarette , then took the envelope Himmler had given him from his pocket and opened it . |
| 21 | I THINK Costello makes too many records for his own good , but here , he found a vein of country and swing which was peculiarly well suited to his wordplay and visual imagery . |
| 22 | Moving a few yards along the tunnel , he found a crevice into which to wedge the second pack , with the sensor directed behind . |
| 23 | Then he felt along to a door frame and followed its outline until he found a light-switch . |
| 24 | He found a tutor in London who was going to coach me for University Entrance . |
| 25 | When he arrived , he found a taxi and gave the driver the address . |
| 26 | ‘ Major Bagshot accompanied Bonzo to the 15th green where he found a ball and a complete set of Henry Cotton ‘ St Andrew 's ’ clubs lying , abandoned . |
| 27 | On his walk back home , pockets empty , eyes downcast , he found a diamond bracelet with a reward value of two hundred Rand which won him another thousand . |
| 28 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 29 | This never ceased to aggrieve the Archduke , but he found a way publicly to show his love for his wife . |
| 30 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |