Example sentences of "and find that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 2 | The newspaper had , it reported , contacted some of those whose views the advertisements claimed to express , and found that they had not approved or even been aware of the advertisements . |
| 3 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 4 | Been shopping lately and found that you bought clothes that did n't fit your toddler ? |
| 5 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 6 | In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’ |
| 7 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 8 | I got my staff to check on the Charlotte T. , and found that she had sailed the day after Andrew Stavanger wrote his letter . |
| 9 | We made enquiries and found that she had helped her mother to carry water every day in Bangladesh . |
| 10 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
| 11 | She closed her eyes and found that she did n't have the energy to open them again . |
| 12 | and found that he had hardened his views and was most obstructive and unhelpful . |
| 13 | He then complemented these observations by giving the appropriate remedy to patients who displayed similar symptoms and signs , and found that he had discovered a therapeutic tool eminently superior to any in use at that time . |
| 14 | When the British columnist Godfrey Winn travelled to Northern Ireland in June 1941 to interview the crew of Smith 's Catalina and found that he had the scoop of a lifetime , he was not able to use it , and based his article instead on Smith 's co-pilot , Flight-Lieutenant Briggs of the RAF . |
| 15 | They then got his notes out and found that he had malignant hypertension — just high blood pressure . |
| 16 | Remember that he says he then , in his fright at what he had done , went to peer at his victim , and found that he had struck down the wrong man . |
| 17 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
| 18 | Dear Guitarist I was just reading Joe Satriani 's article in your mag and found that he suffered the same as myself regarding the tremolo unit on his Ibanez . |
| 19 | She began to ask Simon her usual questions and found that he drove a Merc , preferred cacti to ferns and voted Labour but only because there was no alternative . |
| 20 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 21 | I have always used a magnetic board and marker to follow the chart and found that I did n't even have to look away from it whilst punching , thus speeding up the whole process considerably . |
| 22 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 23 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 24 | Thames exercised the clause by hiring one piece of plant for £40,000 less than the contractor had paid — and found that it eased tensions between them . |
| 25 | He got up and went to the piano , sat on the stool and found that it revolved . |
| 26 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 27 | He was a very successful , very good-looking professional in his mid-thirties — just as Tom Russell was , although that was irrelevant , of course — and to find that he seemed to be interested in her was satisfying somehow . |
| 28 | Early antiquarians and archaeologists were greatly hampered by an almost complete lack of dating techniques for the sites and finds that they recorded and excavated . |
| 29 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 30 | He 'd check it and find that she 'd left . |