Example sentences of "[vb past] found him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving . |
| 2 | If Whizzo had been any good Jazz could have transferred but Biddy , having given Whizzo the thumbs down , had found him a good home with a nervous lady in the suburbs and he was no longer available . |
| 3 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 4 | She had found him a bit too inclined to enthuse , like a tourist visiting some primitive culture , while Polly was ‘ tense ’ . |
| 5 | Later , exhausted by the morning 's expedition , he would retire to the poolside where he read yesterday 's Daily Telegraph , of which Signor Fixit had found him a source . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The other had found him a very cynical man , an atheist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
| 10 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |