Example sentences of "he may find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another risk run by the shopkeeper who deals with a married woman is that he may find that , though she has property , her husband is insolvent . |
| 2 | To most Englishmen such a conjunction will be unbelievable ; but , on returning to England , he may find himself wondering how he has finally accepted the Spanish view . |
| 3 | But if he winds up running his film company the way he has so far run his restaurant , he may find himself forced to serve up more and more celluloid ham just to keep things afloat . |
| 4 | Naughton , who paid 15,000gns for the gelding last month , plans a campaign over fences for him next winter and he may find that Dai Burchell 's four-year-old Maamur will prove too good for him . |
| 5 | If he has a facial palsy , he may find it difficult to chew and swallow , and you can help this by encouraging him to chew and clear food from the hemiplegic side of his face . |
| 6 | If he took no interest in gardening before his illness , he may find it refreshing to be outdoors looking at the different colours and shapes of the plants , smelling their fragrance , and watching the insects and birds they attract . |
| 7 | Possibly it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that the more flexibility your employer retains in framing your job duties , the harder he may find it to argue that you are redundant . |
| 8 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand , if the reader can find the patience to continue , he may find the variations in the repetition interesting and even helpful . |
| 10 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
| 11 | In response to Henry Malt 's letter concerning health hazards relating to art , ( AIM/July 92 ) , there is a book called ‘ The Artist 's Complete Health and Safety Guide ’ by Monona Rossol that he may find useful . |
| 12 | He says that somebody who experiences the fire of love will find that he is affected physically : he may find that he develops a stammer and is unable to speak quickly or clearly any more and that his whole body has slowed down : a job that once took half an hour will now take a whole morning . |
| 13 | But he may find his new sporting pursuits bunkered by some retirement activity he had n't planned on . |
| 14 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 15 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 16 | For instance , a computer can search he words of titles and print out all items containing the relevant key terms , but if an astronomer asks for anything to do with black holes , he may find himself presented with material on the Black Hole of Calcutta , or titles in which the two words appear separately and accidentally , unless the search procedure is more tightly controlled . |
| 17 | As a consequence , he may find himself with as many as forty eggs in his charge . |
| 18 | If he is less than successful he may find that he has to work with an unco-operative discharger . |
| 19 | If a field officer who has taken a risk and opted to negotiate should subsequently have second thoughts , he may find his evidence has disappeared . |
| 20 | In such cases the relation of husband and wife and the past indebtedness may put the creditor in such a position that , if he does not take care to fully explain the transaction , he may find himself defeated by proof that the wife did not fully understand it : ’ |
| 21 | If he 's never been particularly affectionate and you 've never complained before , he may find your sudden demands puzzling and irritating , although I hope he realises that you 're anxious to improve things for the sake of the marriage and not just for yourself . |
| 22 | He may find himself liable for taxes that proper understanding would have enabled him to avoid . |
| 23 | He may find the home which he has regarded as his Englishman 's castle invaded , occupied or even demolished about his ears . |
| 24 | When he observes the actual performance he may find it difficult to associate what he has seen with what he had been led to expect . |
| 25 | If my right hon. Friend holds a review in 1994 , he may find that not much of the industry is left by then , because many of the teams will be broken up . |
| 26 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |
| 27 | He may find , however , that during the decades immediately before the commencement of civil registration in 1837 the answers to his queries are to be found not in the records of the Established Church but in the registers of one or more of the various Nonconformist sects . |
| 28 | Once a vendor has consulted he may find himself under moral pressure from his employees to complete as soon as possible and hopefully re-establish certainty for them over their future . |
| 29 | If he retains a short but more than nominal reversion he may find that at the expiry of the sublease he is unable to relet the property . |
| 30 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |