Example sentences of "and [adv] find that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irish diplomats mounted a full-scale search in Argentina , and eventually found that the girl was among those rescued from The Family during the police raids . |
| 2 | I cast back and suddenly found that I had hooked the bird , which had been feeding avidly , dipping and swooping over the water . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed quietly , and suddenly found that there was the most awful lump in her throat , and that her vision was blurred by tears . |
| 4 | Where an applicant voluntarily left accommodation but had then acquired temporary accommodation , the courts interpreted the legislation so as to entitle the local authority to relate back to the first accommodation and so to find that he was intentionally homeless . |
| 5 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 6 | On the way to our initial meeting I had to change trains , and soon found that I was travelling in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | He was a born teacher and soon found that he gained great fulfillment by teaching and training others for the profession for which he was so ably fitted . |
| 8 | The court can disregard any injury or damage and still find that he was in charge of the vehicle . |
| 9 | In fact , as a result of this talk , I made the detour to Sydney , and quickly found that there are very many interesting locations and sites in this lovely , if expensive capital , which lends itself with peculiar delight to the persuasions of the camera . |
| 10 | In fact , as a result of this talk , I made the detour to Sydney , and quickly found that there are very many interesting locations and sites in this lovely , if expensive capital , which lends itself with peculiar delights to the persuasions of the camera . |
| 11 | The police , he said , were terrific and quickly found that some non-paying spectators were being smuggled in courtesy buses from the hotels and , in a few cases , hidden in car boots ! |
| 12 | Young lads who up to this point have had no real demands made on them by society , who have been spoiled and indulged by their mothers , who have followed their own inclinations entirely and have been tolerated in nearly everything , suddenly and incomprehensibly find that they are the subjects of a spiteful atrocity in which they are abused , assaulted , victimized , mutilated and sometimes threatened with death itself . |
| 13 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 14 | The early French film-maker Georges Méliès is reputed to have discovered the magical properties of ‘ cutting ’ in-camera when , in 1896 , he was recording the flow of Parisian traffic ; he stopped and restarted the camera and later found that the scene had been transformed in an instant . |
| 15 | I was called to make a statement and later found that I had won the medal . |
| 16 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the consumers themselves and some of the organisations which represent them have fallen into the trap of confusing short-term expediencies with long-term solutions and now find that this focus on concessions may have actually distorted the argument for a decent income in later life . |
| 18 | Four people , having served their community , have been confined for some seven years and now find that their right of appeal is being hindered by some legal technicality or misinterpretation of the law . |
| 19 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 20 | He or she can feel a very real , very deep sense of nausea at the intrusion , and often find that they can no longer regard their house as home . |
| 21 | Many surgeons offer patients an operation only on condition that they give up smoking — and often find that the ensuing improvement makes surgery unnecessary . |
| 22 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 23 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 24 | After a few hits most brag that they can compete ( Britain 's Goldcrest is a famous example ) and then find that one big failure ( ‘ Revolution ’ ) destroys them . |
| 25 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 26 | It is often the sudden availability of time that allows women to develop their talents at last — and then find that other people want to pay them for their work ! |
| 27 | There is nothing more frustrating for a President to issue an order to a Cabinet officer , and then find that , when the order gets out in the field , it is totally mutilated . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But you would n't want to pay one gang and then find that they 'd sold your father to another , would you ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke . |
| 30 | ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke . |