Example sentences of "he [vb past] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 2 | When he finally reached Marseilles , he expected to find the fleet of over a hundred ships which he had commissioned in advance . |
| 3 | He wrote that he expected to find ‘ ideology and purpose , ’ but mostly discovered ‘ cynical platitude and intellectual laziness . ’ |
| 4 | No doubt she was wondering what it was he expected to find . |
| 5 | His tone suggested that he thought otherwise , and served to confirm her earlier instinctive feeling that he expected to find her flawed , contemptible . |
| 6 | He expected to find a drain . |
| 7 | That was the shock claim from Blades manager Dave Bassett last night after he failed to find a buyer for the 32-year old-winger . |
| 8 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 9 | But he admitted finding Minton 's facility suspect and thought ‘ the restlessness with which he is still casting about for fresh novelties of manner suggests a certain instability . ’ |
| 10 | BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , he tried to find some comforting way to explain it : maybe the Israelis had set up some sort of contingency fund . |
| 12 | For four years he tried to find a studio that was interested . |
| 13 | In the Eighties he tried to find success with his ex-wife , Anoushka , who for a while was signed to Rusty Egan 's Metropolis label as a potential new romantic diva . |
| 14 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 15 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 16 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 17 | He tried to find out . |
| 18 | He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience . |
| 19 | James was beginning to hone his talents as a writer of fiction , and as part of a Trinidad literary circle that included such writers as Albert Gomes and Ralph de Boissière he helped found two important , if short-lived , literary journals as outlets for their writing : Trinidad ( 1929–30 ) and The Beacon ( 1931–3 ) . |
| 20 | Mr Weld , who inherited this confusion from the Dukakis administration , made it worse last year when , during the election campaign , he promised to find another place to dump . |
| 21 | He entered to find Edouard de Chavigny stretched out in an armchair , wearing cricket flannels , with a copy of John Maynard Keynes 's Treatise on Money open on his lap . |
| 22 | He waited until he could hear the water pot being pulled across the floor of the hut and then he entered to find his mother leaning against the mud wall and screaming for the doctor . |
| 23 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 24 | Once he 'd found out that I was applying to go to art school he opened up quite a bit and we began to talk . |
| 25 | When her mentor , Louis Leakey , sent out the young photographer Hugo Van Lawick to photograph the chimpanzees at Gombe , he wrote to Vanne that he 'd found just the husband for Jane . |
| 26 | Even now he could n't stop himself from making a comic routine out of it : looking at his fingers , his face screwed up in disgust , pretending that he 'd found something unspeakably revolting in the depths of his pocket . |
| 27 | Theoretically the luminous trail should lead rescuers to the clearing even at night … but any sensible murderer would have obliterated the road end of it after he 'd found his own way out . |
| 28 | Trent lay on the roof under a rubber poncho he 'd found in the kitchen . |
| 29 | Then he 'd got some blankets out of the chests under the bunks at the end of the boat , turned off the torch he 'd found in another cupboard , stretched himself out and gone to sleep . |
| 30 | He 'd found out about Corrie . |