Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] found him " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I 'd found him . |
| 2 | I had found him somewhat ingratiating . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked you if you 'd found him . ’ |
| 4 | SHe 'd found him in his workroom , staring moodily at the monitor screen . |
| 5 | Rab ushered her into the kitchen : he wondered how she 'd found him . |
| 6 | There she 'd found him alone — pretending to have forgotten it was Christmas — all the rest of the family having tactfully cried off . |
| 7 | On her return , she 'd found him entertaining several field officers from the nearby KOSB battalion . |
| 8 | She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why . |
| 9 | She 'd found him showered and changed into lightweight jeans and a white polo shirt and reading in the shade of the cloister-like gallery terrace that ran along the back of the house overlooking the gardens and the pool . |
| 10 | But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving . |
| 11 | At Rosalie 's little restaurant Simone watched the handsome Modigliani making a magnificent scene or sketching beautiful women at the Rotonde and , with her girl-friends , she had found him ravishing . |
| 12 | Yes , she had spent a lot of time with Jack Butler and , yes , she had found him interesting , attractive even . |
| 13 | Joan had met Sir James Tyrell — the constable who had replaced Brackenbury — and she had found him pleasant enough when Alianor had presented him to her . |
| 14 | In the alleyway in which she had found him he had been protected from the evening surge of the wind , but as they began to walk towards the west it seemed to attack him . |
| 15 | She had found him a bit too inclined to enthuse , like a tourist visiting some primitive culture , while Polly was ‘ tense ’ . |
| 16 | She had found him , seen him , shivered at the resemblance to Jacob , but he was as distant as he had ever been . |
| 17 | She had found him sitting there , hunched up on his bed , his arms wrapped about his knees , staring out through the open window at the bay . |
| 18 | And , now she had found him , there was born in her the need to give . |
| 19 | They 'd found him . |
| 20 | The form in which they had found him lying was but one of many places which he used . |
| 21 | They had found him quicker than he 'd anticipated , sniffing him out through the darkened streets . |
| 22 | Mrs Moore soon abandoned her pretence as chaperon — encouraged by the unexpected surliness of Colonel Hope who seemed , to her and her ward , in a mood unlike any other they had found him in and unlike any they could previously have invented for him . |
| 23 | The man in the doorway was certainly old and infirm , and none too reliable either , but when he ceased to be of any use to the Guild as a working docker , they had found him a sinecure job as night watchman on the Wharf . |
| 24 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 25 | For High Wood was the true home of their ringer fox — he had no more business in the small covert where they had found him than the man in the moon . |
| 26 | With five minutes to go , they had found him . |
| 27 | Mr Shepherd appeared in my office with my son — said he 'd found him roaming about the factory . |
| 28 | He was almost certain that he had found him , that he could say , ‘ Our McCloy was here , ’ and yet what had he achieved but dredge up a tiny segment of McCloy 's life ? |
| 29 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 30 | Which was why it was so intriguing to hear that he had told one or more of the SRU 's top brass that while Peter Wright was still scrummaging like a tight-head prop in that — one would have thought very wisely — he did not attempt any of the seasoned loose-head 's tricks of the trade , he had found him a good , strong and heavy scrummager , difficult to budge . |