Example sentences of "he have find a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler .
2 Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another .
3 More Russian : ‘ Excrement , ’ said the man , ‘ he has found a machine-gun . ’
4 Once he has found a group , the male stays with it but at a reasonable distance of perhaps 30 or 40 m ( 100–130 ft ) .
5 He 'd found a photograph of someone like her , he said .
6 ‘ Charlie said he 'd found a substitute , but he never said it was you . ’
7 Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers .
8 ‘ No ! ’ she shrieked , and managed a half-turn away from him , then discovered that he had found a way of keeping her exactly where he wanted her .
9 He had found a field of yellow rape in full Liberal Democrat bloom and he wanted a picture of me walking through it .
10 His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month .
11 And he had found a tumbler and another bottle of Famous Grouse from which he 'd taken , at most , two tots .
12 Now , when he had found a pot of honey , Corbett was hurrying him away .
13 Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date .
14 A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective .
15 Valeri said he had found a tent and various items on the ridge , which they were attempting , so I made a list of them and he drew a sketch map of the location where the tent had been found .
16 He had found a pile of papers in one of the dormitories and wanted to look through them .
17 It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph , as a junior clerk .
18 He had found a method of neutralising MacDonald 's most effective political quality — his inspirational personal presence .
19 This future leader of the Scottish Reformation was actually at that stage far more interested in England , where he had found a haven under the Protestant Edward VI .
20 In his time of exile , he had found a focus .
21 He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions .
22 Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel .
23 The tsar thought he had found a model for ameliorating the condition of the peasants which the gentry would accept .
24 In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions .
25 Immediately his face lit up , as if he had found a treasure .
26 He had found a club where Doreen Dacres had been engaged but where no Doreen Dacres had arrived and this comforted him .
27 He had found a job as watchman at the council depot but it had caused him to become morose and ailing .
28 It was that he had found a place in which to discover that there was of course , of course , no such Being at all .
29 He and Ollie and Mac made a good team , playing at various Underground stations all that autumn and winter until Mac left because he had found a place to live up north and they took Peter on .
30 and he had to find a girl who 'd let him do it to her .
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