Example sentences of "that [pers pn] found [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told the Minister that I found his allegations incredible . |
| 2 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 3 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 4 | It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to . |
| 5 | Mrs Lewis told the opening of an inquest at Liverpool Coroners Court that she found her husband hanging half out of bed , frothing at the mouth , two days after the crash . |
| 6 | And he knew that she found his pacifism stupid . |
| 7 | And he must have known that she found his touch distasteful , yet did that stop him ? |
| 8 | Actively disliking him , she nevertheless realised that she found his company annoyingly … disturbing ? |
| 9 | Two : that you found my mind as exciting as I certainly found yours . |
| 10 | Your master has persuaded me that you found our correspondence helpful , and that I should resume it . |
| 11 | " I hope that you found our New Year ceremony of some interest . " |
| 12 | Doctor Who got so incredibly popular that you found your weekends were no longer free either . |
| 13 | Finally may I thank all those who supported the event which saw five main line steam locomotives operating over a preserved main line and hope that they found their visit enjoyable . |
| 14 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 15 | It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process . |
| 16 | Several guests had difficulty hiding the fact that they found her charges cheap ( though they were not cheap by Italian standards ) . |
| 17 | Only this afternoon , one of the Maison 's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive . |
| 18 | ‘ But if I take the job , ’ she blurted , goaded by the idea that he found her lack of sophistication amusing , ‘ it wo n't be because I like the house . |
| 19 | Was he implying that he found her desirable ? |
| 20 | ‘ Fired — dismissed , ’ she offered a couple of alternatives — only to find that he found her first offering of more interest . |
| 21 | He told his mother and father that he found their whole system of religion abhorrent . |
| 22 | He also said that he found his responsibilities ‘ a very great strain ’ , because his aunt was such a difficult , domineering person , and he would like to see her in a Home — partly because she needed more care and more company . |
| 23 | But it was in the opera house not the organ loft that he found his true métier . |
| 24 | It was when he tried to move that he found his robe was caught on some obstruction . |
| 25 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |