Example sentences of "[that] he found [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything was in shadow , for the tiers of gas candles — an excellent improvement , that — were dimming , slowly , slowly , taking the sight of his daughters and his wife away from him , so that he found himself alone , as he began to sing . |
| 2 | ‘ Fired — dismissed , ’ she offered a couple of alternatives — only to find that he found her first offering of more interest . |
| 3 | Only this afternoon , one of the Maison 's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive . |
| 4 | Was he implying that he found her desirable ? |
| 5 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 6 | Not that he found them conflicting , still less was he offering a comparative mythology . |
| 7 | He told his mother and father that he found their whole system of religion abhorrent . |
| 8 | But it was in the opera house not the organ loft that he found his true métier . |
| 9 | We also have the comments of his tutor , Ian Duthie , on the piece , which shows that he found it curious , too . |
| 10 | Bromley Challener said that he found it inconceivable , nay incomprehensible that so many local people could stand by and watch two courageous policemen set upon by rogues , and do nothing while these same officers received such grievous wounds that one had since died and the other would be incapacitated for months to come . |
| 11 | I looked at his face , which was something I did seldom , for I did n't like it , and saw that he did n't believe me ; that he found it inconceivable that I should n't love him ; that , ageing and unmarried though he was , he believed himself to be irresistible . |
| 12 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 13 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 14 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |
| 15 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 16 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |