Example sentences of "he found the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr L and the man next to him found the noises did not interfere with sleep but were worse on waking . |
| 2 | One side of him found the inspector attractive and amusing . |
| 3 | Bramble decided to follow , and when he entered the office , which was also the village shop , he found the stranger in earnest colloquy with the postmaster , one Algy Brind . |
| 4 | Above it the Plough was tilted and he followed the line of the two stars at its end until he found the Pole Star . |
| 5 | Along with Sir James he found the US much more attractive , taking over and breaking up some fairly hefty US corporations . |
| 6 | But he found the Python TV recordings a terrible strain , and some of his drinking was an attempt to dampen that fear . |
| 7 | He found the experience good for his mind . |
| 8 | He found the parish set-up conventional and that was hard to be bear ; ‘ irksome ’ he called it . |
| 9 | He was kept busy writing lectures for he found the faculty grossly understaffed . |
| 10 | He found the ordinations , three times a year , to be his happiest moments . |
| 11 | Though he found the passionate irresponsibility of the Homeric world ‘ shocking ’ , preferring its Virgilian successor ‘ because it was a more civilized world of dignity , reason and order ’ , Eliot also realized that the all-important ‘ mind of Europe ’ was one ‘ which changes , and that this change is a development which abandons nothing en route , which does not superannuate either Shakespeare , or Homer , or the rock drawing of the Magdalenian draughtsmen ’ . |
| 12 | He found the bank 's routine congenial , keeping greater worries at bay . |
| 13 | MacDonald 's reply — ‘ I explained my hopeless parlty. position if there were any resignations ’ — is a clear indication that he found the idea of a National Government distasteful ; indeed , that his position was likely to be ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 14 | He found the experience of working in a wide variety of company departments invaluable and believes it held him in good stead when he reached the higher echelons of management . |
| 15 | He , like Lewis , had not yet reached a position of religious faith , but he was dissatisfied with purely materialistic explanations for life 's mysteries , and he found the conversation of Barfield intoxicating . |
| 16 | Back in bed he found the relevant passage : |
| 17 | He found the club welcoming , helped by the fact that it was a path south previously trodden by another Leicester stalwart , Les Cusworth , whom Liley remembers watching as a lad of seven or eight at Wakefield . |
| 18 | Mr James Ferman , director of the British Board of Film Classifications , admitted he found the video , an exploration of the borderline between religious ecstasy and sexual passion , an interesting and legitimate subject . |
| 19 | He had never heard Francesca giving vent to feminine jealousy and on the whole he found the experience refreshing . |
| 20 | Three miles outside Strasburg , North Dakota , he found the childhood home of Lawrence Welk , a nationally-known accordion-player and band-leader . |
| 21 | He found the research interesting , which was the only thing which made him stay , but the firm did n't own him . |
| 22 | He found the bag of bread and sultanas that Philip had filled for the pheasants . |
| 23 | Way back , he found the sketch he 'd made of the hide . |
| 24 | Between Fort Worth and Dallas he found the nomads wandering from motel to motel , ‘ the tuneless gipsies of the machine age ’ , along roads lined with trailer courts , gas stations , second-hand car dealers , supermarkets , drive-in banks , movie theatres and restaurants , all serving the same food , movies , television , songs and cigarettes . |
| 25 | He had expected her to be sitting in the little ticket office with her friend Maureen , but instead he found the office locked and in darkness and the entire frontage of the cinema deserted . |
| 26 | When Beattie tried to hold evangelistic meetings in Hillsborough , he found the Church of Ireland aristocracy who controlled the parish council using planning laws to make it difficult for him to get a site . |
| 27 | He tried to disguise the anxiety he felt when he found the comms system down , but Tammuz was nearly hysterical by this stage . |
| 28 | He continued to turn the pages in his swollen hand , and soon he found the place he wanted . |
| 29 | The relationship with Callaghan , who freely confesses he found the Queen 's advice highly supportive , was easier not only because his policies were less socially divisive , but also because , taken to its philosophical conclusion , the Thatcherite dream of a dynamic , enterprise-based meritocracy had no place for a family which reigned simply by blood-right . |
| 30 | When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’ |