Example sentences of "found he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview with the popular intellectual magazine Magill in June , Archbishop MacNamara found he could not accept that the state had the power to determine the meaning and nature of marriage and compared the effects of divorce to the recent Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 2 | Some time later found he had only one shoe on . |
| 3 | On his site check our instructor found he was severely affected by reduced ‘ g ’ , although he had about 60 hours ' solo gliding . |
| 4 | Castenada ( 1970 ) , for example , found he was dealing with new events and totally new ways of understanding . |
| 5 | Yet the choreography is by a Russian who studied among the Spanish peasants and worked out his design with the help of a particular peasant , a natural dancer , whose passion for dance was such that his life ended tragically when he found he was not to perform in the ballet . |
| 6 | He found he had taken on more than he bargained for . |
| 7 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 8 | The Bishop of Lincoln thought it ridiculous that this powerful engine which was Michael Ramsey should be used in a tiny little parish , and said so , but blessed him when he found he wanted to go . |
| 9 | The teaching method which he found he regarded as spoon-feeding . |
| 10 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 11 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 12 | He discovered in the weeks and months that passed a real passion ; a task that was not only deeply therapeutic , but one that he also found he could do rather well . |
| 13 | ‘ Is Francesca still in New York ? ’ the brat was asking anxiously , and McLeish , who had not wanted to discuss her in this company , found he had to reassure Jamie about her whereabouts and probable date of return . |
| 14 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 15 | We found he had a whole store of out of door knowledge which he was quite ready to impart . |
| 16 | Take Henry I , for example , the king who never smiled again , our teacher told us , after he had lost his only son and heir , in the White Ship : then they found he had twenty-four little baskets scattered all round the country . |
| 17 | None of this abated Joseph McCarthy 's crusading zeal in the Spring of 1950 when he found he suddenly had the ear of the nation . |
| 18 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 19 | ‘ But the neighbours were suspicious and found he had soil in his shoes and a cock 's head under his bonnet . ’ |
| 20 | The Select Committee on Members ' Interests found he was in ‘ clear breach of the terms and the spirit ’ of the rules on declaration of interests for failing to tell other committee members of his links with a company making flight simulators . |
| 21 | Going through the rock gardens , he had to climb over and climb under the trunks of fallen pine trees ; he found he was weak . |
| 22 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 23 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 24 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 25 | Well , it turned out he used to be a ‘ pretty successful writer ’ , but then he found he was just getting into ‘ things that were too weird . ’ |
| 26 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 27 | He could control his left arm on the handlebar when riding a push-bike , but he found he could not use an exercise bicycle because the effort involved automatically increased his spasticity beyond his control . |
| 28 | He found he was still standing there some minutes later , not because the traffic had been particularly heavy — there had been several opportunities to cross — but because he was lost in thought about what he had seen . |
| 29 | Henry found he was grinning foolishly . |
| 30 | Hoomey found he looked to Jazz for support , trusting his judgement . |