Example sentences of "he found the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory had been able to leave his car when he thought he was getting warm , and walk up people 's drives until he found the pea-green Polo Fox . |
| 2 | He found the young man witty , intelligent and obviously devoted to Alice . |
| 3 | Clearly he found the familiar atmosphere in their house , Glamorgan , more congenial than staying with his director . |
| 4 | He walked along the Harrow Road until he found the small turning he wanted . |
| 5 | Beneath the pad he found the small entry wound ; the larger exit hole had gone unnoticed beneath the man 's leg and was draining the lifeblood from him . |
| 6 | In The Person and Place of Jesus Christ ( 1909 ) , a book often regarded as his best , he found the two-nature doctrine of Christ deficient , inclining to the kenotic theory , which he modified by thinking of a ‘ pleroma ’ following the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus . |
| 7 | On arriving at Hamilton Terrace he found the front door open . |
| 8 | With the help of a night nurse he found the right room and tiptoed in . |
| 9 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 10 | He found the right formula with ‘ Killer ’ , but how effective will the rest of his samples prove ? |
| 11 | He found the right formula with ‘ Killer ’ , but how effective will the rest of his samples prove ? |
| 12 | He found the escalating pressure of trying to solve a string of production problems there , got too much . |
| 13 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 14 | Turning his attention to his arm , he found the deflected bullet had not penetrated it , but had instead sliced its way across the surface of the bicep . |
| 15 | Back in bed he found the relevant passage : |
| 16 | One of the rare continental visitors to a Britain , he found the bolted sport climbs of Yorkshire to his liking — but was not shy of climbing routes with natural protection — and his on-sight flashes at Malhal and Kilnsey astonished many locals . |
| 17 | When Richard Baxter returned to Kidderminster in 1647 he found the Civil War had brought about some changes which were helpful to his ministry . |
| 18 | Donald was surrounded , almost , but he found the only gap and secured the points for Warwickshire . |
| 19 | When Jones arrived , about seven , he found the Prime Minister reading a novel . |
| 20 | When he walked into the office the next day he found the new proprietor 's considerable bulk squeezed into his own chair , took the point and resigned . |
| 21 | The store manager said he found the new technology more labour intensive and less flexible . |
| 22 | Though he found the new car handled very well , it did n't immediately have the success it might have had in F1 , partly because Jackie missed a number of races after his Spa accident ; it improved the following year with a Cosworth engine , but by then he was already thinking of what his next move in F1 would be . |
| 23 | Moreover , as he made clear , he found the measured pace and rhythm of the work especially congenial , coinciding as it did with a period of remarkable creative gestation . |
| 24 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 25 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 26 | In 1946 he came to Paris to discuss independence , but he found the French government was determined to restore its authority in all Indochina . |
| 27 | When Superintendent Pumfrey arrived , charging in like a drill sergeant-major bursting in on some particularly slack recruits , he found the local Cullbridge Police already well into the routine work , with the Crumwallises fussing around upstairs and downstairs , vocal but ineffectual . |
| 28 | Hurrying back to the office he found the would-be client gone and his boss apoplectic . |
| 29 | To his surprise , when he reached the office he found the green car drawn up outside and the Prince about to go in . |
| 30 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |