Example sentences of "[noun sg] he found [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Keane continues to develop into the most potent midfield player in English football he found himself short of powerful reinforcements yesterday . |
| 2 | But in practice he found himself able to control the Residents only by appointing men he deemed to be sufficiently compliant , an expedient to which he resorted when Temple retired prematurely from the service in 1917 . |
| 3 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 4 | That day he found it prudent to acquire the services of one Frederick James Ratcliff , a solicitor of Blagrave Street . |
| 5 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 6 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 7 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 8 | When he had spent all his money he found himself alone and destitute . |
| 9 | Like all the teachers , I had a one-year contract renewable at Clive 's discretion , which in my case he found himself unable to exercise . |
| 10 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 11 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 12 | Boy thought about this reaction to the film all day , but in the end he found it unsatisfactory , both as a form of interpretation and as a form of enjoyment . |
| 13 | When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them . |
| 14 | He sensed that his father was silently demanding some expression of regret , but whenever he glanced at his grim , unsmiling face he found it impossible to summon an apology to his lips . |
| 15 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |
| 16 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 17 | Lewis treasured this conversation in after years , but at the time he found it disconcerting and annoying . |
| 18 | The discussions would move languidly enough , the parties being so young , and there was time to extricate either of them , or both , at whatever stage he found it desirable . |