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Example sentences for "found him"

  • It was there that Pollyanna, on her way home from the Pendleton house, found him.

  • You see, Mr. Pendleton HAD broken his leg when I found him--but he was lying down, though.

  • It was the very day you went that I found him in the woods, you know; and I had to unlock his house and telephone for the men and the doctor, and hold his head, and everything.

  • We found him at home, with his wife and a married daughter, and spent the night there.

  • I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.

  • And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

  • Dantes hastened to his dungeon, where he found him standing in the middle of the room, pale as death, his forehead streaming with perspiration, and his hands clinched tightly together.

  • He told me that he was anxious to restore you to the position which you had lost, and that he would seek your father until he found him.

  • Riding up to his lodge, we found him seated at the head of it, surrounded by various appliances of comfort not common on the prairie.

  • Riding up to him I found him in the act of drawing out an arrow, which, with the exception of the notch at the end, had entirely disappeared in the animal.

  • I found him established in his old quarters, a large apartment usually occupied by the absent bourgeois.

  • So I slips to the sick-room, and if I found him awake I reckoned we could put up a yarn for the family that would wash.

  • I skimmed around for the watchman, a-wondering whereabouts he slept; and by and by I found him roosting on the bitts forward, with his head down between his knees.

  • By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

  • He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

  • I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

  • I found him at ten this morning in Poldice Cistern, seeking for pins and castors that had jumped out, when I insisted on his going home to bed.

  • Next morning I found him busy at the station, making arrangements for the departure of the passenger train for Perth, and evidently upon the best of terms with everybody.

  • I recounted how, the last time I found him, I found him at a dinner party behind a wall of white cravat, with an inconclusive opinion on every possible subject, and a power of silent boredom absolutely Titanic.

  • I found him sitting in the middle of the floor on his stool, a pose which is generally indicative of some mental energy on his part.

  • We found him in a state of considerable excitement, but far more rational in his speech and manner than I had ever seen him.

  • Thomas Bilder lives in one of the cottages in the enclosure behind the elephant house, and was just sitting down to his tea when I found him.

  • Again he went into the grounds of the deserted house, and we found him in the same place, pressed against the old chapel door.

  • I found him, to my astonishment, quite composed and most genial in his manner.

  • Then whoever made any address to him, if he found him attached to Lysander, certainly lost his suit.

  • For expecting to have met in him a most troublesome, he found him a most accommodating colleague.

  • This morning, ma'am, I found him at the corner of the town.

  • Returning, I found him with a "Cavendish" in his hand and a pack of cards spread out before him on the grass, solving a problem.

  • I found him wan-looking and depressed, and every now and then he sighed.

  • That broke up Whibley's faith in "Maria," and a sensible doctor, getting hold of him threatened to prescribe a lunatic asylum for him if ever he found him carrying on with any spirits again.

  • I found him on the point of starting for the club: he had forgotten all about our appointment.

  • One evening I found him in his chambers engaged upon his Sisyphean labour of "tidying up.

  • When I came on duty in the evening I found him, as I expected, highly delirious.

  • He found him kneeling on the ground, prostrated.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "found 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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