Example sentences of "he [vb past] find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected to find a drain . |
| 2 | That was the shock claim from Blades manager Dave Bassett last night after he failed to find a buyer for the 32-year old-winger . |
| 3 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 4 | He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience . |
| 5 | For four years he tried to find a studio that was interested . |
| 6 | He 'd found a photograph of someone like her , he said . |
| 7 | ‘ Charlie said he 'd found a substitute , but he never said it was you . ’ |
| 8 | A disabled man who is unable to speak typed out a message on his computer to call the fire brigade when he woke to find a candle had caused a small fire in his bedroom . |
| 9 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
| 10 | He seemed to find a fascination in watching Gabriel . |
| 11 | A year later , casting opened for Wayne 's World , and he needed to find a villain who could not be grotesque , but had to be grand . |
| 12 | Harry Tomalin was to write ( erroneously ) ‘ The Club does not buy bonds and the market is limited ’ and he offered to find a buyer at ‘ about half face value ’ . |
| 13 | Ted was a natural , so unless he managed to find a right-hander to take him through the Backdoor , he was always looking over his shoulder . |
| 14 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | He had found a field of yellow rape in full Liberal Democrat bloom and he wanted a picture of me walking through it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And he had found a tumbler and another bottle of Famous Grouse from which he 'd taken , at most , two tots . |
| 19 | Now , when he had found a pot of honey , Corbett was hurrying him away . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had found a Khmer Rouge Handbook of Torture . |
| 22 | A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had found a pile of papers in one of the dormitories and wanted to look through them . |
| 25 | On one occasion he had found a sheep 's head jammed between some of the stones . |
| 26 | It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph , as a junior clerk . |
| 27 | He had found a method of neutralising MacDonald 's most effective political quality — his inspirational personal presence . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In his time of exile , he had found a focus . |
| 30 | 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 . |