Example sentences of "he found the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr L and the man next to him found the noises did not interfere with sleep but were worse on waking . |
| 2 | One side of him found the inspector attractive and amusing . |
| 3 | I remember once the late professor G S Stuart reminding us that , in relation to the death of Jesus on the cross , we do not know how deep were the waters crossed , or how dark was the night that the lord passed through ere he found the sheep that was lost . |
| 4 | It di we do n't get all the details in the story that Jesus tells of here , but it 's quite certain that it was n't just a case of wandering along a nice path until he found the sheep and then bringing it home . |
| 5 | Terry went to the cinema with Sarah , and to the caelidhe with her and Anne when his sister was free to go , but he found the dance very changed with so many men away from home . |
| 6 | He found the Lorrimores ' car about a mile and a half out of Cartier . |
| 7 | He found the watchman asleep under a tree , his legs curled up under him as they had been when he had pantomimed the way he had found the body , his turban neatly parked beside him . |
| 8 | Three kicks brought the door down , and he found the telephone on a shelf behind the pump-attendant 's chair . |
| 9 | Mr James Ferman , director of the British Board of Film Classifications , admitted he found the video , an exploration of the borderline between religious ecstasy and sexual passion , an interesting and legitimate subject . |
| 10 | Felt the tingle as he found the skin of her thighs . |
| 11 | He found the service ‘ exceptionally good ’ , but added : ‘ You have to expect that when the cricket is on you do n't quite get the service you 'd normally expect because they 've all got a radio stuck in their pocket and the ear-piece stuck in their ear . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Rurka said he found the council 's decision difficult to understand , but he stressed that he did not want an adversarial relationship . |
| 13 | He found the lieutenant colonel , although only touching fifty , almost impossibly grand . |
| 14 | He was kept busy writing lectures for he found the faculty grossly understaffed . |
| 15 | Following its course , on 2 May 1869 , he found the wall of the temple enclosure . |
| 16 | Arriving at Verdun in May , he found the unit he was relieving had lost forty per cent of its effectives ; ‘ If you stay here a month , which is normal , ’ they warned him , ‘ you will lose half of yours too . ’ |
| 17 | He found the Regent dismounted and talking to the magistrate-father of the messenger . |
| 18 | He ran back and forth among the consoles , skidding to a halt as he found the controls he wanted . |
| 19 | In fact he found the performance extraordinarily moving . |
| 20 | After 40 minutes , on his hands and knees , peering into the beam of his flashlight , he found the butt end of a small cigar . |
| 21 | He found the keyhole , opened the door quietly , and crept into the living-room . |
| 22 | At East wood House he found the overflow dripping |
| 23 | He found the experience good for his mind . |
| 24 | He found the experience of working in a wide variety of company departments invaluable and believes it held him in good stead when he reached the higher echelons of management . |
| 25 | He had never heard Francesca giving vent to feminine jealousy and on the whole he found the experience refreshing . |
| 26 | MacDonald 's reply — ‘ I explained my hopeless parlty. position if there were any resignations ’ — is a clear indication that he found the idea of a National Government distasteful ; indeed , that his position was likely to be ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 27 | People had rarely asked for his advice and he found the idea of playing the role of Signor Fixit 's confessor novel and strangely flattering . |
| 28 | When he drove down the gravelled road along the edge of the site to the curator 's house , at half past nine , he found the bronze Aston Martin parked in front of the doorway , and Gus Hambro just handing out Charlotte 's suitcases . |
| 29 | He found the belt at the bottom of the bag . |
| 30 | When Beattie tried to hold evangelistic meetings in Hillsborough , he found the Church of Ireland aristocracy who controlled the parish council using planning laws to make it difficult for him to get a site . |