Example sentences of "found [that] their [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something .
2 The nationalised Boards , being larger than their predecessors , could , moreover , now afford to employ more specialist sales staff to cater for these markets ( though they found that their pay scales made it difficult to recruit and keep good industrial salesmen in competition with the electrical manufacturing concerns ) .
3 A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’
4 The 845s Metal Woods complete the set and again I found that their perimeter-weighting seemed to improve my accuracy .
5 Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to .
6 A laboratory study of two short sleepers by Jones and Oswald found that their pattern of sleep was not that of the " normal " sleeper 's first half of the night .
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