Example sentences of "he find [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 2 | He found her with the knife in her neck . |
| 3 | ‘ He found her at the Borrehus at Falster where Søren , her third husband , manned the ale taps and where she ferried peasants and their cattle across the sound . |
| 4 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 5 | He found her in the parlour , doing nothing , seated with her pale skirts spread about her . |
| 6 | In Cambridge that autumn he found himself without the steadying influence of Thomas Middleton , and without money . |
| 7 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 8 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 9 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 10 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 11 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 12 | He did n't believe it up to the moment that he found himself outside a half-house that had once been graced by a classical loggia . |
| 13 | Without being aware of getting there he found himself outside the printer 's shop . |
| 14 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 15 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 16 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 17 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 18 | As though his feet were programmed he found himself at the Incident Room . |
| 19 | Mr Duval then realised the power of international persuasion when he found himself among a group of prisoners who were finally released in 1976 as the result of pressure from Amnesty International and Jimmy Carter 's new US government . |
| 20 | He found himself in a city in turmoil , where traditional values had been overturned by Maurice Johnston 's decision to dump Celtic for Rangers . |
| 21 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 22 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 23 | Cooke recalled how , like everyone else , he was utterly baffled as to how the pollsters could have got it all so wrong — until , a few days later , he found himself in a train sitting opposite a Republican county chairman . |
| 24 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 25 | That attitude rose to a crescendo when , at the age of 19 , or was it 20 ? he found himself in a dilemma . |
| 26 | He found himself in a room , at the end of which was a small counter with a piece of netting above it . |
| 27 | This , in turn , suggests that perhaps he found himself in a dilemma — caught between his naturally humane feelings and the logic of his unsentimental , utilitarian theory . |
| 28 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 29 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 30 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |