Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] find [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife cares for him at home but this is very demanding and she finds that she needs regular breaks . |
| 2 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 3 | Erm and that 's , of course , why she 's so delighted when she finds that the Rivers are her relations . |
| 4 | When the company began to embody computers in its products , the engineers responsible were dismayed when they found that a 50 per cent overhead on the purchase price of the hardware had been charged by the estimators . |
| 5 | When the company began to embody computers in its products , the engineers responsible were dismayed when they found that a 50 per cent overhead on the purchase price of the hardware had been charged by the estimators . |
| 6 | The dilemma of those who evoke consciousness as the basis of phenomena was succinctly stated by Ronnie Knox in his limerick on idealism : There once was a man who said " God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there 's no one about in the Quad . " |
| 7 | I am particularly worried that the freezer is too cold as I find that ‘ soft scoop ’ ice-cream is always rock hard . |
| 8 | New dishwasher owners are usually horrified when they find that a 3 kg box of detergent costs anything between £2.59 and £5.93 , depending on where you shop and whether you buy a supermarket own brand or one of the well-known names such as Finish or Sun . |
| 9 | The relief was so great that he found that his hand was creeping across the table towards hers . |
| 10 | If you study the long-term unemployed , sadly what happens is they lose their job or they do n't get employment , and eventually they keep working hard , right , but after the period of time they get dispirited when they find that people are not willing to take them on , and of course it 's a terrible thing for them to cope with . |
| 11 | There is not the consistent pattern of wet-dry-wet-dry that you find when you move through latitudes . |
| 12 | ‘ Parts of the Chambers Street building are 130 years-old and we found that virtually no maintenance had been carried out . |
| 13 | The differences in treatment of the authors was very apparent when we found that some selected a few headings and sub-headings and others sub-divided the subject much more . |
| 14 | The German co-producers were shocked when they found that the contract for Melancholia gave this right to the BFI , since in Germany final cut is almost always given to the director . |
| 15 | Then it roared and tried to stand up , and it was n't until it was nearly upright that it found that its feet were tied very firmly to the legs of its chair . |
| 16 | You will have to be ruthless if you find that they do n't press successfully , and either move them to another site in the garden , or give them to someone else . |
| 17 | When Huw reached the entrance to the dock , the gates appeared to be shut , but as soon as he put his hand to them , they swung open and he found that the chain and padlock had been taken off . |
| 18 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 19 | Given his scepticism about our ability to penetrate to the real essences of things , it is not surprising that he finds that none of the much-discussed contemporary theories on offer provide a satisfactory answer , and concludes that we are simply ignorant about this . |
| 20 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 21 | It would not be surprising if you found that the work started arriving either only just on time or even late . |
| 22 | His comments were a bit premature because we find that in the next few months more than half those who died were children between the ages of 8 days and 9 years . |
| 23 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Dalgliesh , 'we 're so sated now with scientific wonders that it 's a bit disconcerting when we find that technology can do everything except what we want it to . ’ |
| 25 | After going to evening classes to study dress design , Claire hoped for better things , but was soon disillusioned when she found that her employer expected to use her designs without paying her . |
| 26 | Thus , we were not surprised when we found that the effect of preconditioning was lost in rabbits that had forty or more 5-min occlusions over 3–4 days ( unpublished observation ) . |
| 27 | They were astonished when they found that he was a lad of no more than seventeen . |
| 28 | So she was very cross when she found that there were no flowers to pick . ’ |