Example sentences of "he had found a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it had come as a shock , for he had never made it his business to enquire into the ramifications of his family , he had found a morbid humour in the situation . |
| 2 | Every moment then has significance and an aura of delight surrounds everything and it is as if he had found a rare wellbeing and joy . |
| 3 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 4 | HE HAD found a new publisher and his second novel was out . |
| 5 | Mr Wiseman also hinted he had found a prominent milk producer to lead his attempt to recruit dairy farmers to supply milk directly to his dairies . |
| 6 | Slightly surprised at a mess sergeant who did n't know all about every officer , Maxim was about to deny it when he realised that , by chance , he had found a great cover story . |
| 7 | Now he hoped he had found a fatal flaw in his wife 's plans and they could , as usual , spend the summer holiday with his mother in Dorset . |
| 8 | ( I remember having an urgent telephone call from a professional astronomer who believed that he had found a bright nova . |
| 9 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |