Example sentences of "he find [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He found loopholes in the rough , if you like .
2 What did Drew do when he found Karen in the street ?
3 He found Joseph in the Hungerford area , where he had rented a small farm .
4 On his return from the east , he found Arabs in the local Pyrenees also , Saracen raids from Spain having been a regular affliction here since the eighth century .
5 Mark , of Southport , Lancs , said he found wires in the flex had short-circuited and burnt out .
6 He found support in the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts and Rubenianum in Antwerp who were able to secure funds from the Crédit Communal de Belgique for an exhibition that would display the achievement of Flemish painting as part of Antwerp 's celebrations in 1993 as Cultural Capital of Europe .
7 After a period of unemployment in 1919 he found work at the government-run Slough Transport Depot where he became chairman of the shop stewards ' committee , organizing strikes and demonstrations against its eventual closure in April 1920 .
8 He found work on the promenade there , sitting in a barrel .
9 He found peace in the fact that this time he could help , and decided to watch over her until she recovered .
10 He found sanctuary in the Priory church .
11 He found Dimity in the sitting-room , close to the fire .
12 He is the poet par excellence ( and later , the singer/ songwriter par excellence ) of the two great intimacies — woman and God - because he found refuge from the One in the other ; when accidie impinged , Cupid intervened .
13 After serving his time he found employment in the late 1760s , probably through the influence of family connections in the City of London , with William Pickett , the retail goldsmith of the Golden Salmon , Ludgate Hill .
14 And he found amusement in the slumbering Court .
15 He found Cowslip near the spring .
16 Here he finds organizations like the Liberty and property Defence League ( LPDL ) and The British Constitutional Association ( BCA ) , and individuals like Lord Wemyss , Herbert Spencer , A. V. Dicey , and Ernest Benn , all committed to individualism and all found supporting the political right .
17 The Reeve 's speech is measured , not a splenetic outburst : only " " a litel ire is in his herte ylaft " " and he finds fault with the Miller 's Tale just " " a lite " " .
18 It is always a puzzle with Peter Kennedy , just how does he find time for the volume of work he produces .
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