Example sentences of "found [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital .
2 I longed to speak , but found absurdly that I was shy .
3 Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done .
4 The effects of Esther 's stroke were not obvious at first , which made the doctors wonder if she had suffered a second stroke when they found later that she had a very severe left hemiplegia .
5 The two boats were running along the coastline on almost parallel courses , Ewen close in , perforce following the jagged line of the shore , and our boat ( I found later that she was called Sea Otter ) on a straight course some way out .
6 He found also that the incidence of relative clauses was a very clear indicator of development , Increasing four times from the youngest group of writers in his sample to the eldest .
7 v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition .
8 When Hertz measured the velocity of his radio waves , he found repeatedly that their velocity was significantly different from that of light .
9 Williams , Landel & Ferry ( 1955 ) found experimentally that 1n aT followed a relation of the form and further that C1 and C2 seemed to be universal parameters with values C1 = 20.4 , C2 = 101.6 and Ts a reference temperature , which is different for each polymer but generally found to be about 50° above the glass transition temperature Tg .
10 Such an uninspiring vista to bring so much heartache , and she found now that the sight of it no longer had the power to hurt her .
11 I found before that my heart was too partial in his favour and now with so much openness , affection and honour too , I am quite overcome .
12 Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . )
13 Later I found out that my husband was being unfaithful to me .
14 In the course of their demands to Reg Weaver , the t&gwu factory convenor , the workers from section 61 found out that although they were being paid bonuses on a target of 200 or more they were in fact entitled to bonuses on 168 ( an agreement which dated back to 1972 and would have meant £4 a week extra ) .
15 We were very upset when we found out that a dual carriageway might be built in the fields past the wild duck pond behind our home .
16 We were n't supposed to be friends with people with whom we were doing business , which was probably a good idea , but just the same , I did n't know that until I began to live on Oakley Street and found out that David was very distressed .
17 ‘ And by the way , ’ said Elinor as she handed round tea and biscuits , ‘ I found out that the Chatwin kid was traced to a gypsy camp at the Appleby Horse Fair but before the police could pick him up he 'd disappeared again . ’
18 When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ .
19 Mrs. Simper then found out that my sauciness was grown to such a height that no body could endure it , and told my lady , that there never had been a room well swept , since Betty Broom came into the house
20 So we thought , ‘ We 'll get the National Trust to take it , ’ and we were flabbergasted when we found out that the Trust could n't afford to take it without an endowment .
21 When she found out that she could n't boss the children , she moved on .
22 And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings .
23 Nutty found out that she charged ten pounds an hour .
24 It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office .
25 He also found out that a delegation of architects was being organized to congratulate Palmerston on his classical stance .
26 Imagine my horror when I found out that the fire had now spread to this building , where my father worked .
27 Sister and her nurse had calmed her down a little and found out that the child 's father had deserted them , and she had taken up with another man .
28 It certainly seemed that a chapter of my life was closing , and I felt even more disgruntled when I found out that the other girls had all managed to get postings near their homes for their final few months in the Service .
29 Interestingly , I found out that there are fashions in wine .
30 It was only later that he found out that nearly everyone suffers from the same delusion in one form or another ; at the time he was convinced that it was his own personal idiosyncrasy .
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