Example sentences of "he find [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of its mode of nidification ’ , Gould wrote of the nightjar he found on the lower Namoi , ‘ I can speak with confidence having seen many pairs breeding during my rambles in the woods … |
| 2 | Millet took the bus to the pre-war inelegance of the College close to the Thames towpath and blessed the warmth that he found on the upper deck . |
| 3 | This of course is what inspired Thor Heyerdahl 's dramatic Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed on a raft from South America to Polynesia , thus hoping to prove that he was following in the wake of ancient migration routes which could explain the cultural similarities he found between the two culture areas . |
| 4 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 5 | The homosexual ‘ knows intimately in himself the generality that he finds in the other ’ : ‘ in the homosexual act I remain locked within my body , narcissistically contemplating in the other an excitement that is the mirror of my own ’ ( pp. 307 , 310 ) . |
| 6 | Layton appreciates in Leonard the patrician Jew aspects that he finds so ridiculous in others ; Leonard , the anti-establishment ( and anti-everything else ! ) that he finds in the older man . |