Example sentences of "he [vb past] find [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had in his hurry left one drawer just a little open , and was now delving into the carpet-bag , which he 'd found at the bottom of the shelved larder . |
| 2 | Trent lay on the roof under a rubber poncho he 'd found in the kitchen . |
| 3 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 4 | The safe shelter he had found on the edge of the village could not have been more comfortable , for all that on awakening and having his first lightsome look it struck him as a mite strange . |
| 5 | A visitor brought two of these which he had found on the shore near Saligo Bay in the summer of 1980 , for me to identify . |
| 6 | A visitor brought two of these which he had found on the shore near Saligo Bay in the summer of 1980 , for me to identify . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ Athelstan pulled from his wallet the buckle he had found on the frozen moat , ‘ I believe this is yours . |
| 8 | These purposeful wanderings in nearby London commons were the nearest he could come to the idealized world he had found in The Amateur Poacher . |
| 9 | His hair was tied back with a piece of tinsel string he had found in the Christmas decorations box . |
| 10 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 11 | As for the dormeuse , it would seem to have been taken as far as Quatre Bras ; and there , according to his fellow officers von Oetlinger and von Humbracht , von Keller determined to open the necessaire that he had found in the carriage , believing it to be full of gold . |
| 12 | Using the magnifying glass he had found in the left-hand drawer , Ben had shown her how the print of the reflected newspaper was subtly different from the one the man held . |
| 13 | Bernard particularly enjoyed the dinner when he served his aristocratic French guests with wine from some dusty old bottles he said he had found in the cellar . |
| 14 | He wanted to recapture the feeling of being his own man , addressing his own problems , working as a member of a wider team that he had found in the RAF . |
| 15 | Then he slowly held up the object he had carried from the car — the object he had found in the gas station . |
| 16 | ‘ No wonder no one knew about him ! ’ the sergeant exclaimed as he studied the identity card he had found in the man 's wallet . |
| 17 | He 'd had a sudden sick recollection of the headline in the Illustrated Police News , dated 1870 , which he had found in the library archives . |