Example sentences of "i found that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
| 2 | Later I found that they had put me in prison because of my madness . |
| 3 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 4 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 5 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 6 | ‘ In some ways , ’ he said yesterday , ‘ Python does look very old-fashioned now , yet when I arranged a compilation of all 45 shows for the BBC I found that we had on the Not The Nine O ’ Clock News unintentionally pinched a number of things , putting the signature in the middle of the programme , parodying famous TV interviews . |
| 7 | and I found that you do not address an architect as Mr Jones , it must be Edward T Jones Esquire . |
| 8 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 9 | Now I found that I got results that way . |
| 10 | Then I had no excuse not to audition for plays , and when I did I found that I enjoyed it . |
| 11 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 12 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 13 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
| 14 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 15 | As I checked in at Baghdad airport , I found that I had 100kg of excess baggage . |
| 16 | And er coming here I found that I had n't er put any of my vases in , so I had to go back again . |
| 17 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 18 | I found that I had become very tired and once again Boris said ‘ It 's time to go . ’ |
| 19 | By the end of ‘ Great Expectations ’ I found that I had enjoyed the book and had found it thought provoking and interesting . |
| 20 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 21 | I found that I gained a lot of strength from all this regular correspondence with people and , four years on , I now feel much more myself again , although of course I still miss my husband tremendously . |
| 22 | When Hellen was transferred to Toronto to continue her documentary film-making career , I found that I missed her cheery presence more than I had expected , despite many activities . |
| 23 | When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room . |
| 24 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 25 | Talking to a tobacconist I found that he has some women customers and a range of smaller pipes for them to choose from . |
| 26 | and I found D Y by D X and I found that it came to erm X squared . |
| 27 | Of course , I had never walked in snow before , and I found that it made my feet very cold . |
| 28 | To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black . |
| 29 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 30 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |