Example sentences of "he find in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started by sketching numerous frescoes and statuettes he found in the Hermitage Museum , Leningrad . |
| 2 | For Eliot , though , such ideas of tradition and reincarnation would be bound up with heredity at the most basic evolutionary level and with the continuing cycle of renewal and death which he found in the pages of the anthropologists . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She sympathized with and approved of , if never quite comprehended , Edward 's intense love of the special happiness that he found in the heart of the country when absorbed with his rare intensity in sights , sounds , and scents . |
| 5 | Eventually he found in the Scriptures , which he scanned daily , texts which satisfied him that he might be saved . |
| 6 | And as failed actor — he started his career on the stage before going to the Slade to study under Legros — he found in the music hall and its world precisely those sources of inspiration which Degas had found in the corridors of the Opera , and the foetid atmosphere of the Cirque Fernando . |
| 7 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 8 | Is this hers , this comb he found in the rocks |
| 9 | We went into the living-room and seized the brass clock which has always adorned the shelf above our fireplace ( oh , what strong hands he has ) , and violently enclosed it in the festive wrapping paper he found in the trash . |
| 10 | There was nothing of interest upstairs , even though Forester went through the pockets of some expensive looking rough country wear that he found in the bedroom wardrobe . |
| 11 | His intention was simple , to substitute this for whatever garment he found in the dog . |
| 12 | Crippled as he was from many falls , only lately taking their toll , he found in the lawn mower a kind of substitute for the experiences of earlier , dangerous days . |
| 13 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | His vision leads him to seek a saviour that he finds in the proletariat , albeit heavily cloaked in ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ In the sixteenth century , doctors thought they could tell a person 's health by looking into their eyes — I like to see a man 's soul ’ ; such souls as he finds in the Saracen 's Head and other pubs . |
| 18 | But the man who desires to know himself more completely — however strange and confusing his discoveries may be — he is drawn further within until he finds in the texts a mirror of his own complexity . |