Example sentences of "he find [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge .
2 He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced .
3 He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe .
4 He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile .
5 When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive .
6 He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner .
7 What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities .
8 He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed .
9 What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ?
10 Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice .
11 As soon as a character walks through the green and yellow arch from area 61 , he finds himself in this vast stagnant bog .
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