Example sentences of "[noun pl] they found [conj] " in BNC.

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1 On arrival in the kitchens they found that the domestic superintendent had followed the correct first-aid procedure for scalds and burns and the two ladies , although suffering from shock , had already had ice packs administered to their injuries .
2 When Alfred Kinsey and his team went into the closet to examine graffiti in male and female lavatories they found that men wrote and drew more sexual graffiti than women .
3 If the points were electrically stimulated to induce correct electrical balance , the impending physical changes were averted , In many cases they found that a pathological condition could be reversed by stimulating and rebalancing the points .
4 This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped .
5 Having borrowed money to maintain their vast estates they found that the estates were too inefficient to generate the income to pay back the loans .
6 His teenage resolution was shared by many young refugees , though when it came to offering their services they found that joining up was not as simple as the recruiting posters had led them to believe .
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