Example sentences of "he [verb] find [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 2 | He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The egoist might concede that , since in choosing means to his own ends he has to try to predict others ' behaviour , he does find it a practical necessity at times to imagine from their viewpoints at the cost of transiently feeling himself moved in altruistic directions . |
| 5 | He thinks he 's found us a suitable plane . ’ |