Example sentences of "and he found [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A drink was pressed into his hand , a chair held back and he found himself seated opposite Cornelius by the window , for all the world like some sixth-former seeking advice on whether to go for Oxbridge or the Guards . |
2 | He is New York 's schools chancellor , head of the public schools system , and he found himself last week on public trial . |
3 | When he attended St Mark 's , Dundela , for the first time after his conversion , he was repelled by the sense that ‘ these good Produsdands ’ went there to express party solidarity rather than religious feeling ; and he found his Irish relations almost universally repulsive . |
4 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
5 | He could not remember how long it was since-his wife had leaned on him , and he found it pleasant to be the one in charge of the situation . |
6 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
7 | He liked Eden , and he found it easy to disapprove of the way in which Chamberlain had handled relations with him . |
8 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
9 | I forgot the note on the hall table and he found it later , came to me distressed . |
10 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
11 | The newly-painted pole was slippery and he found it difficult to get a good grip . |
12 | Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman . |
13 | The breath was constricted in his chest and he found it difficult to swallow . |
14 | It was quieter there than elsewhere , and he found it easier to sleep . |