Example sentences of "he found [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 2 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 3 | Gauzlin rode there , and when Walter threatened to kill any monk whom he found on the land , Gauzlin replied that he had a plentiful supply of confessors at Fleury . |
| 4 | Millet took the bus to the pre-war inelegance of the College close to the Thames towpath and blessed the warmth that he found on the upper deck . |
| 5 | He built a motorbike out of scrap bits he found on the tip , which did n't endear him to Grandma , or anyone else . |
| 6 | ‘ Of its mode of nidification ’ , Gould wrote of the nightjar he found on the lower Namoi , ‘ I can speak with confidence having seen many pairs breeding during my rambles in the woods … |
| 7 | In all but one he found for the complainant . |
| 8 | This of course is what inspired Thor Heyerdahl 's dramatic Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed on a raft from South America to Polynesia , thus hoping to prove that he was following in the wake of ancient migration routes which could explain the cultural similarities he found between the two culture areas . |
| 9 | She would be ashamed if he found out the way she 'd sanctified the memory of his alter ego over the years . |
| 10 | Meanwhile he got on with what he found inside the citadel . |
| 11 | In a complex competitive commercial world , certain issues require n -depth thought and that requires time time that can not he found in a committee or a two-hour meeting with a fixed agenda . |
| 12 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
| 13 | He started by sketching numerous frescoes and statuettes he found in the Hermitage Museum , Leningrad . |
| 14 | For Eliot , though , such ideas of tradition and reincarnation would be bound up with heredity at the most basic evolutionary level and with the continuing cycle of renewal and death which he found in the pages of the anthropologists . |
| 15 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 16 | She sympathized with and approved of , if never quite comprehended , Edward 's intense love of the special happiness that he found in the heart of the country when absorbed with his rare intensity in sights , sounds , and scents . |
| 17 | Eventually he found in the Scriptures , which he scanned daily , texts which satisfied him that he might be saved . |
| 18 | And as failed actor — he started his career on the stage before going to the Slade to study under Legros — he found in the music hall and its world precisely those sources of inspiration which Degas had found in the corridors of the Opera , and the foetid atmosphere of the Cirque Fernando . |
| 19 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 20 | Is this hers , this comb he found in the rocks |
| 21 | We went into the living-room and seized the brass clock which has always adorned the shelf above our fireplace ( oh , what strong hands he has ) , and violently enclosed it in the festive wrapping paper he found in the trash . |
| 22 | There was nothing of interest upstairs , even though Forester went through the pockets of some expensive looking rough country wear that he found in the bedroom wardrobe . |
| 23 | His intention was simple , to substitute this for whatever garment he found in the dog . |
| 24 | Crippled as he was from many falls , only lately taking their toll , he found in the lawn mower a kind of substitute for the experiences of earlier , dangerous days . |
| 25 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |