Example sentences of "to find that [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne Harper-Wake , managing director of London 's The Gym at The Sanctuary , was amazed to find that many of the callers were overweight because they were eating all the wrong things . |
| 2 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 3 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 4 | She was great as Beattie — and it was heartening to find that most of the other winning ads had humorous themes . |
| 5 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 6 | The judge declined to find that any of the information contained in the blue book bore the stamp of confidentiality within the criteria laid down in Faccenda Chicken , ie it could not be described as a trade secret or anything approximating thereto . |