Example sentences of "found [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 2 | I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist . |
| 3 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 4 | Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled . |
| 5 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |
| 6 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 7 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 8 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 9 | The new government was formed after consultations with seven parliamentary parties , but not with the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) , which was banned on June 24 after a Sarajevo court found that it had developed into a " classic terrorist organization " , nor with the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 12 | To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black . |
| 13 | Of course , I had never walked in snow before , and I found that it made my feet very cold . |
| 14 | Sinking down on her bed , she found that it took her quite some time to get herself more of one piece . |
| 15 | and I found D Y by D X and I found that it came to erm X squared . |
| 16 | Thames exercised the clause by hiring one piece of plant for £40,000 less than the contractor had paid — and found that it eased tensions between them . |
| 17 | On opening it , she found that it contained a note from Ben . |
| 18 | Plotting the line on a map , he found that it passed straight through Westminster Abbey , the site of which was originally known as Thorney Island from a conspicuous mark : a hallowed clump of hawthorn . |
| 19 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 20 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 21 | Kaye enjoyed helping the group but found that it eroded her own identity . |
| 22 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 23 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 25 | He got up and went to the piano , sat on the stool and found that it revolved . |
| 26 | She tried to push the thought from her mind but found that it persisted . |
| 27 | When Wendy opened hers , she found that it consisted entirely of crispbread and realised that she would be able to eat only during the applause — Harrison Birtwhistle 's music had not yet been written . |
| 28 | Assembling our find on deck we found that it consisted of a case of 10,000 cigarettes and several cases of spirits . |
| 29 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 30 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |