Example sentences of "find [Wh det] he [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead .
2 He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for .
3 From November ‘ 74 he began to find what he was looking for .
4 And as this notion made his mouth curve upward in amusement at his optimism , he found what he was searching for .
5 Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case .
6 At last he found what he was looking for : horses had stood there .
7 I do n't think he finds what he 's looking for , cos after he looks in all the bins he goes off without taking nothing out .
8 The social anthropologist can find what he is looking for in either .
9 Reynolds had only the vaguest memory of his search of the Evergreens , but he thought he could find what he was looking for .
10 He obviously did n't find what he was looking for , because he pushed her none too gently out of the way , then strode into the small room at the back of the house , where she slept .
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