Example sentences of "[noun sg] he find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs in the bedroom he found empty whisky bottles littering the floor . |
| 2 | While pursuing his family tree he found two Tyacks amongst those who held land in the Cornish manor of Binnerton , one of whom held the office of manorial reeve . |
| 3 | In this way he found 38 flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 4 | As a developing pianist in his teens , he soaked himself in the music of Mozart , Beethoven and , most of all , Elgar , with whose musical language he found much affinity . |
| 5 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 6 | Back at the castle he found that man efficiently commanding all . |