Example sentences of "he find the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found the personal habits of the coolie recruiter deeply repugnant and this only increased the resentment he felt at his helpless dependence on him for replacements to his dwindling labor force . |
| 2 | He found the rural areas to have a very low incidence of head lice , but for urban children it was indeed quite high , and varied significantly by age and sex . |
| 3 | I knew that Niki had not been happy at Ferrari , that he found the pressure of the Italian press and of Italians in general something abhorrent , that he did n't like being attacked in that country 's three sporting dailies as a failure , and that he found the byzantine intricacies of Ferrari 's Maranello a bit hard to take . |
| 4 | He found the French officials and soldiers had all been interned and he was virtually a prisoner . |
| 5 | But yesterday he found the would-be thieves had smashed the door lock in an attempt to break in . |
| 6 | Then he found the white posts marking each one , and could read some of the names . |
| 7 | He found the Greek churches of Egypt , Palestine , Syria , and Asia Minor seething with controversy about the opinions of an Alexandrian priest named Arius . |
| 8 | He found the predatory birds oriented less accurately to the alarm calls , as Marler would have predicted . |
| 9 | ‘ Erik is the first to admit that when he first joined us , he found the physical demands a bit difficult , ’ said Clemence . |
| 10 | At the bottom he found the three letters CIS and asked what it was . |
| 11 | He found the teenage years confusing — college would at least provide a different background , new faces , fresh distractions and , eventually , the chance to shake off ghetto restrictions , to escape . |
| 12 | Chapman was sure of his assessment , however ; and though James was just as fussy about the terms of his transfer as Jack had been , he found the bright lights of the big city too attractive a prospect to refuse Chapman 's offer . |
| 13 | Once he finds the right ones he throws the bag over his shoulder like Santa and strides purposefully towards the door . |
| 14 | He seldom hunts in Gloucestershire because he finds the large expanses of flat and open farmland boring . |
| 15 | In this , his value always exceeds Boswell 's ; Johnson the writer has no need to grind the axe of his ego , and thereby feels no qualms in conveying how confusing he finds the native Scots , who , decisive and firm in their answer to his first question , are likely to contradict it entirely in answering the second question . |