Example sentences of "found [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She began to ask Simon her usual questions and found that he drove a Merc , preferred cacti to ferns and voted Labour but only because there was no alternative . |
| 3 | He found that he could make a speech — that is , he could think on his feet , and not be at a loss for words . |
| 4 | When asked by Geoffrey Fisher to explain his reasons , he found that he had difficulty in finding a reason . |
| 5 | Accustomed at home to Congregational worship and at school to the Book of Common Prayer , he found that he liked the Common Prayer better . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They found that he was not good in processions , for the curious roll prevented him from keeping ranks like the others . |
| 8 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 12 | And I found that he was universally right — by which I mean that I was answerable in my body and in my heart for what was done to my brother . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | and found that he had hardened his views and was most obstructive and unhelpful . |
| 15 | He found that he could n't go out with the lads anymore , and he felt he 'd lost his happy-go-lucky side . |
| 16 | His Dad would kill him if he found that he 'd taken them . |
| 17 | When Eleanor 's book of short stories was accepted by a publisher he had suggested , Nigel found that he had mixed feelings . |
| 18 | As she hesitated , Tug found that he desperately wanted to know what she would say . |
| 19 | He found that he could direct a free horse to choose the correct feed bucket — the one containing oats whilst the others were empty — by visualising in his own mind the oats lying in the bottom of the bucket . |
| 20 | He did manage to establish the English in a ring of garrisons in southern Scotland , but — like Edward I before him — he found that he could not extend his grip in any effective way into northern Scotland beyond the Tay ; and his southern castles could be recaptured . |
| 21 | ‘ He had been off-colour after running in the Mildmay at Sandown earlier in the season and we found that he had broken blood vessels , ’ said Gaselee . |
| 22 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 23 | One week before attending the special clinic , Jonathan had noticed some staining of his underpants and on examining his penis , not a thing he was in the habit of doing , he found that he could express a little clear mucoid discharge from it . |
| 24 | When he found that he could demonstrate some discharge in the early mornings e was convinced that his infection had returned , not realizing that the majority of males can produce a certain amount of mucus at the urethral meatus in the morning if they try . |
| 25 | John Gadsby who travelled across France in 1855 found that he needed two greatcoats and a large travelling wrapper to keep himself warm even though the carriage was supplied with hot footwarmers which were renewed at certain stops along the route . |
| 26 | He found that he was rolling and unrolling the brim of Maidstone 's hat in his fingers . |
| 27 | Hoomey opened his mouth , but found that he was speechless . |
| 28 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 29 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 30 | But as my historical data grew I discovered , from other sources , statements which contradicted the statements of the local historian and in most cases when I checked carefully I found that he was inaccurate . |