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Example sentences for "find him"

  • As far as Craeke was concerned, it was impossible to find him, as he had left Holland.

  • Three times a day he entered Van Baerle's cell, expecting to find him trespassing; but Cornelius had ceased to correspond, since his correspondent was at hand.

  • I am on the look-out for that young man, and as the whole of my day is taken up with your tulip, you must needs leave me the evenings to find him.

  • Such were the cogitations of Cornelius three days after the sad scene of separation from Rosa, at the moment when we find him standing at the window.

  • I knew where to find him, unless he were still lounging about the building, intent upon more extravagance; but I waited until I saw Miss Mannersley and Briggs depart without further interruption.

  • Didn't he find him a guest at the board of a Jesuit priest, visiting the schools of the Mission where this young Jezebel of a singer teaches the children to chant in unknown tongues?

  • Didn't he find him, who left here a man mortified in flesh and spirit and pale with striving with sinners, fat and rosy from native wines and fleshpots, and even vain and gaudy in colored apparel?

  • After these two he meets the third, who expects to find him in good humour and to make him rejoice over his own mischance.

  • Montigny, for instance, had neglected neither of these extremes, and we find him accused of cheating at games of hazard on the one hand, and on the other of the murder of one Thevenin Pensete in a house by the Cemetery of St. John.

  • In June, we find him back at Mauchline, a famous man.

  • We may praise or blame according as we find him related to us by the best or worst in ourselves; but it is only in virtue of some relationship that we can be his judges, even to condemn.

  • They went upstairs to find him lying in state upon a big sofa placed near a window, and his joy at the sight of them was a genuine, human thing.

  • He was a new order of companion, but before they had reached the house, Mount Dunstan had begun to find him inspiring to the spirits.

  • I am giving some thought now to the kind of thing I must invent as a suitable apology when I find him a really delightful person, full of virtues and accomplishments.

  • If Mr. Nestor is to be found, they'll find him!

  • We've got to tell 'em we have no news, and can't find him.

  • He was told that Manicamp had been looking after De Guiche, and, not knowing where to find him, had retired to bed.

  • It is a sign that something has happened," answered her uncle.

  • And your wife can tell me where to find him.

  • How does it find him prepared to meet it?

  • Suppose Anne (not knowing where else to find him) appeared at his brother's house, and claimed him in the presence of Mrs. Glenarm?

  • Within a few months of the time when we left him, the popular hero and happy recipient of civic and royal favours, we find him in Scotland attempting feats which a knowledge of practical difficulties bids us regard as extraordinary.

  • A month later we find him making a night voyage from Vauxhall Gardens, destined to be the scene of many memorable ascents in the near future; and on this occasion he gave proof of his capability as a close and intelligent observer.

  • Again, in 1882 we find him an inventor, this time of the patent asbestos fire balloon, by means of which the principal danger to such balloons was overcome.

  • He began to debate within his own mind; was it not ridiculous to allow want to find him a second time defenceless?

  • He was shouting the reckless refrain when d'Arthez and Bianchon arrived, to find him in a paroxysm of despair and exhaustion, utterly unable to make a fair copy of his verses.

  • He had obtained leave to lay his sonnets before the journalist, and mistook the civility of the latter for willingness to find him a publisher, or a place on the paper.

  • But for the timely return of Flora, to find him in this difficult situation, further consequences might have ensued.

  • Little Dorrit was glad to find him in such heart, and smiled from her own heart.

  • I received your instructions to find him, Rigaud; is it not?

  • Well, you would do much better to find him a jacket and a pair of trousers, if you have them.

  • I may rise from the depths of my grave to find him, if he should not fulfil his duty!

  • The other is, on the contrary, to all appearance a true nobleman; but do you not fear to find him a bully?

  • The Duc d'Angouleme was still in Spain; and of all the crimes which a man in favour with the Commander-in-Chief might commit, this one alone was certain to find him inexorable.

  • Thither the priest came to find him, and brought him to the convent by way of the gallery round the cemetery.

  • I will come back to America to find him," said Phileas Fogg calmly.

  • Aouda was amazed to find him as calm as he had been from the first time she saw him.

  • I shall do all I can to find him," replied Phileas Fogg.

  • She nodded, fought with her emotion a moment, and went on unsteadily, "I want you to help me to find him for in finding him we shall find Hassan!

  • But that accounts for our failing to find him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "find him" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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