Example sentences of "he find [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found a thrown-away central heating panel or two , and there was real heating . |
| 2 | In Quintin Hogg he found a trustworthy ally . |
| 3 | Back in the kitchen he found a stove-enamel jug . |
| 4 | Crooked , right , crooked , there was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile , he found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked style |
| 5 | Now he found a young man from a few doors away was home on leave from the Royal Engineers and spent some of his leave with him and some visiting relations , as men on leave were expected to do . |
| 6 | As a regional chairman , he had a seat on the national — or UK as the Scots prefer it — BAIE Council , which he found a strange experience . |
| 7 | Acting on his own initiative he found a mediocre painter whose technique was sound , and took some lessons in perspective from him . |
| 8 | Without any experience of that industry he found a useful partner in Thomas Gray , the manager of a small ironworks at Coatbridge , with whom in 1861 he formed the business of Colville & Gray . |
| 9 | He found a fossilised head which belonged to a 10 feet long scorpion . |
| 10 | But he was recaptured yet again and this time transferred to Colditz , which he found a fascinating meeting place of a wide range of backgrounds and nationalities . |
| 11 | Peering inside he found a half-naked couple locked together in the backseat . |
| 12 | He found a certain amount of fossil evidence that the time planes were not parallel with the lithological boundaries and he came to the general conclusion that the facies to the north are in the main younger than those to the south . |
| 13 | And if in the flamboyance of the act , the studied casualness of the greeting , he found a certain bitter amusement , why , he was still able to relish an irony and a situation . |
| 14 | He picked up his journal and leafed through the parchments until he found a certain sheet , then read it through in silence . |
| 15 | In Rick Batey 's review of the Alvarez Scoop guitar , he found a good basic instrument whose success in the UK may be impeded rather than enhanced by its outlandish appearance . |
| 16 | He found a good job . |
| 17 | He found a new job at the ‘ people 's own ’ Narva light-bulb factory in Friedrichshain . |
| 18 | He found a new patron in John Evelyn , who encouraged him to come to London , where Sheldon also helped him with money . |
| 19 | He took him hunting with the Old Berkshire where he jumped all sorts of obstacles and had to learn to look after himself in tricky situations and he found a new enthusiasm . |
| 20 | The nice young man could n't argue with that ; I paid the £25 extra and hurried out of the shop before he found a cheap white one . |
| 21 | Later he found a temporary job and a room . |
| 22 | Instead of the cafe or the restaurant that he 'd expected , he found a narrow shop with a few uncontroversial-looking videos in the window display and a more extensive and X-rated stock of tapes and magazines inside . |
| 23 | The Maggot turned in his seat and rummaged in his camera bag until he found a battered Nikon and a roll of black and white film . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Giovanna 's immense husband had waddled off to a patch of rough grass in which he hunted until he found a small metal square . |
| 25 | When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds . |
| 26 | After four hours of diligent searching , he found a small parcel which looked rather like a discarded packet of sandwiches . |
| 27 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 28 | Thereupon , Anselm went off to spend the summer months in the hill village of Liberi above Capua , and here he found a renewed peace of mind and spirit which he had not known since his days as prior of Bec . |
| 29 | He wandered into the kitchen , where he found a freshly-brewed pot of tea . |
| 30 | Persistence and the 15% personal interest time he could call upon kept him going until he found a potential end use and a person willing to put time and effort into developing the idea into a truly innovative and useful product . |