Example sentences of "that i find " in BNC.
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| 31 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 32 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 33 | I must say that I found Sarah Yardley 's ‘ Viewpoint ’ on goats very interesting . |
| 34 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |
| 35 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 36 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 37 | In considering these submission , I am bound to say that I found Mr. Philipson 's standpoint unreal in the banking world of the 1990s . |
| 38 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 39 | What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive . |
| 40 | th the bit that I found most interesting was at least the Board are trying to look after our interests in that respect . |
| 41 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 42 | I told the Minister that I found his allegations incredible . |
| 43 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Lili with that determined faith in herself that I found so enviable . |
| 44 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 45 | ‘ Did you have a good time ? ’ my mother asked Robert as I whispered to Lili that I found old age unclean and a disgrace . |
| 46 | He complained , not at length : ‘ This was the first time , and except one , the last , that I found any reason to complain of a Scotish [ sic ] table , and such disappointments , I suppose , must be expected in every country , where there is no great frequence of travellers . ’ |
| 47 | When I saw the pictures , I could n't deny that I found them arousing . |
| 48 | The illustrations show a small hoard of silver coins consisting of one Elizabeth and four Mary groats that I found near Bridgewater , Somerset . |
| 49 | Item 1 is an enamelled badge that I found in the garden of an old house . |
| 50 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
| 51 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 52 | I thought she might have been the subject of a newspaper article or something like that , but it was n't until later that I found out just how famous she was . |
| 53 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 54 | I thanked my lucky stars for Twelve French Poets , the A-level syllabus , and our rectangular French teacher , who was so thorough that I found I could discuss symbolism and synaesthesia without batting an eyelid . |
| 55 | It was in the pleasure area , as usual , that I found I had a problem . |
| 56 | It was a remark of this kind that I found particularly heartening . |
| 57 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 58 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 59 | And I have to admit that I found you delightful . |
| 60 | And I have to confess that I found you as delightful then as I had in Wexford , and was intending to find out where you were going , and pursue the acquaintanceship . |