Example sentences of "he had found [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , there were mounting allegations that some of the money paid to him had found its way into the Miyazawa faction 's own campaign funds . |
| 2 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 3 | Surprised that he had even told anyone , let alone complimented her in her absence , Ellie looked at him in astonishment — which was a waste of time , because he had found something quite riveting to stare at in the fireplace . |
| 4 | He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it . |
| 5 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 6 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 7 | He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit . |
| 8 | He could n't quite believe he had found himself such a beautiful animal . |
| 9 | He had found himself looking into the infinitely complex growth of stem and grass and leaf and tendril and fine twig that covered the moor in a thick springy upholstery , but also beyond this , through and beside this , into clear darkness . |
| 10 | And afterwards , when she had gone , he had found himself thinking of her . |
| 11 | At school he had been enthusiastic but undistinguished , and after it he had found himself in a polytechnic in the Midlands , in the state of paralysis of the imagination that tends to grip adolescents when the time for choosing a career looms . |
| 12 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 13 | But the only one he had found himself wanting to see was this girl . |
| 14 | He had found himself begging and it made him feel undignified . |
| 15 | Poor boy , he had found nothing better than a dirty corner next to a lavatory ! |
| 16 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 17 | He began to wonder how much more time he would need to waste before phoning Blanche with the bad news that he had found nothing . |
| 18 | He had found nothing more , except that on the beaten earth of the floor there had been a single dark stain , from what he could not tell . |
| 19 | He had dumped me on the surface just as he had found me . |
| 20 | As a Greek and Latin scholar he had found them described in the works of ancient authors who wrote about the moods , emotions and actions of all the actors involved in their dramas . |
| 21 | from Spain , where he had found them growing in the wild . |
| 22 | He had found them scruffy , and had said so in no uncertain terms . |
| 23 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 24 | These , too , he left as he had found them . |
| 25 | He had found them and he loved them : the little heads like frail iron , withstanding this wolf-month cold ; and , when you opened the white petals , there were the green veins , promise of the Spring to come . |
| 26 | He said he had found them on a tip but was convicted of theft by York magistrates . |
| 27 | But this Christmas an invitation had come to celebrate with the Bradfords , and he had found her . |
| 28 | He had found her — and he used the word much as he might of finding a particularly beautiful sea-washed stone — one late June afternoon the previous year . |
| 29 | And he had found her somewhere to live . |
| 30 | When he had found her , on holiday in Bournemouth , she had been very keen on amateur theatricals . |