Example sentences of "[pron] find him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 2 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
| 5 | She found him in the kitchen , a big L-shaped room , like the house , dominated by an Aga cooker at one end , and a round table set in the shorter alcove . |
| 6 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 7 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 8 | In our first encounter with Satan we find him within the burning lake of Hell , having fallen from such a great height to such a great depth and now engulfed in fire , licked by flames , seemingly in pain , according to Milton 's narration , yet still able to speak with an uncanny strength and courage against ‘ the potent Victor ’ ( I. 95 ) . |
| 9 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 10 | And they found him on the floor ? |
| 11 | He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes . |
| 12 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
| 13 | The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ . |