Example sentences of "he had find [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it . |
| 2 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 3 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 4 | He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit . |
| 5 | He could n't quite believe he had found himself such a beautiful animal . |
| 6 | He had found himself looking into the infinitely complex growth of stem and grass and leaf and tendril and fine twig that covered the moor in a thick springy upholstery , but also beyond this , through and beside this , into clear darkness . |
| 7 | And afterwards , when she had gone , he had found himself thinking of her . |
| 8 | At school he had been enthusiastic but undistinguished , and after it he had found himself in a polytechnic in the Midlands , in the state of paralysis of the imagination that tends to grip adolescents when the time for choosing a career looms . |
| 9 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 10 | But the only one he had found himself wanting to see was this girl . |
| 11 | He had found himself begging and it made him feel undignified . |