Example sentences of "they [verb] found it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 2 | He was wondering if they 'd found it . |
| 3 | After the screening , the audience had the chance to question , Simon Shepherd and Sophie Ward , who admitted they 'd found it hard to play the second romantic leads ; |
| 4 | The main reason our children try drugs is that they 're searching for pleasure , and the main reason they carry on is that they 've found it . |
| 5 | like yourselves and they 've found it very beneficial in the past . |
| 6 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 7 | They can look the up by title , by the title of the book , as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library or whether or they 're all on loan . |
| 8 | In the further short silence , Kathleen 's mobile features sought an expression and , when they had found it , it was one of anxiety . |
| 9 | They had found it difficult to part but , as things were getting desperate , they turned to magic and said ‘ Abracadabra , one , two , three , say the magic words and now we 're free ’ . |
| 10 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 11 | To say that the audience had found Dr McNab 's discourse dull would not be entirely accurate ; they had found it soothing , certainly , and perhaps monotonous . |
| 12 | Benches were wiped , floors were swept , and within a short time Ling 's kitchen had been restored to the pristine condition in which they had found it . |
| 13 | FIMBRA pointed out how useful they had found it to ‘ track ’ those of their members who had other business interest in addition to their financial services companies . |
| 14 | The police has simply forgotten to tell the owner they had found it . |
| 15 | They have found it hard , too , to make a bridge between the 11 years of Mrs Thatcher and the 16 months of Mr Major , to say what a wonderful woman she was , while being unable to explain why they threw her off the sledge . |
| 16 | They have found it convenient to introduce a decreasing time-like coordinate given by . |
| 17 | Now Richard Thompson , Professor of Psychology at Stanford University , and his colleagues believe they have found it . |
| 18 | Even although Andrew Kay & Company are the world 's leading curling stone makers , at times they have found it difficult to stay in business . |
| 19 | They have found it hard to believe that 100 shares bought in 1973 for £145 are now worth nearly £7,900 . |
| 20 | This defines the area and clearly specifies what they are going to do with the information once they have found it . |
| 21 | The fourth stage of the process concerns what they do with the information once they have found it . |
| 22 | They badly need to re-establish some credibility , after Warrington , and even they have found it hard to say ‘ no ’ to such a public appeal , from such an unique individual . |