Example sentences of "he [verb] found a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this growing experience he has found a means to fight more effectively for social justice and the needs of his fellow-workers . |
| 2 | A British microbiologist claims he has found a means of using bacteria to dispose of human sewage . |
| 3 | More Russian : ‘ Excrement , ’ said the man , ‘ he has found a machine-gun . ’ |
| 4 | Once he has found a group , the male stays with it but at a reasonable distance of perhaps 30 or 40 m ( 100–130 ft ) . |
| 5 | He 'd found a photograph of someone like her , he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Charlie said he 'd found a substitute , but he never said it was you . ’ |
| 7 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 8 | ‘ No ! ’ she shrieked , and managed a half-turn away from him , then discovered that he had found a way of keeping her exactly where he wanted her . |
| 9 | He had found a field of yellow rape in full Liberal Democrat bloom and he wanted a picture of me walking through it . |
| 10 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
| 11 | And he had found a tumbler and another bottle of Famous Grouse from which he 'd taken , at most , two tots . |
| 12 | Now , when he had found a pot of honey , Corbett was hurrying him away . |
| 13 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 14 | He had found a Khmer Rouge Handbook of Torture . |
| 15 | A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective . |
| 16 | Valeri said he had found a tent and various items on the ridge , which they were attempting , so I made a list of them and he drew a sketch map of the location where the tent had been found . |
| 17 | He had found a pile of papers in one of the dormitories and wanted to look through them . |
| 18 | On one occasion he had found a sheep 's head jammed between some of the stones . |
| 19 | It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph , as a junior clerk . |
| 20 | He had found a method of neutralising MacDonald 's most effective political quality — his inspirational personal presence . |
| 21 | This future leader of the Scottish Reformation was actually at that stage far more interested in England , where he had found a haven under the Protestant Edward VI . |
| 22 | In his time of exile , he had found a focus . |
| 23 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 24 | Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel . |
| 25 | He had found a mews flat in Fulham , convenient for his work , but he often returned to his family only at weekends . |
| 26 | The tsar thought he had found a model for ameliorating the condition of the peasants which the gentry would accept . |
| 27 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 28 | Immediately his face lit up , as if he had found a treasure . |
| 29 | He had found a club where Doreen Dacres had been engaged but where no Doreen Dacres had arrived and this comforted him . |
| 30 | He had found a job as watchman at the council depot but it had caused him to become morose and ailing . |