Example sentences of "found that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 2 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 3 | Studies on savants who can tell you the day of the week on which you were born found that they followed the rules of a calendar to work out the dates . |
| 4 | And so the Air Staff found that they had a vociferous and powerful industrial lobby in both Westminster and Whitehall to back their case for GOR 339 . |
| 5 | Looking cautiously out , the intruders found that they had holed up directly opposite the main German headquarters . |
| 6 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 7 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 8 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 9 | They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money . |
| 10 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 11 | Nicholas 's nephew Thomas Collett , a barrister , and his wife came to Little Gidding in 1628 but after two years found that they had no vocation for its kind of life and returned to London . |
| 12 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 13 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
| 14 | Even then , some found that they had to drop out . |
| 15 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
| 16 | After hearing the evidence , the Tribunale Penale di Roma found that they had obtained the drugs from Hurley for the purpose of entrapping Italian nationals , among them Mario Cetera , the husband of Joan Schumacher , American heiress to the Prentice Hall publishing fortune . |
| 17 | Later I found that they had put me in prison because of my madness . |
| 18 | Access to Israel from the occupied territories was re-opened on Oct. 28 , but when Arabs returned to their jobs many found that they had been dismissed . |
| 19 | The newspaper had , it reported , contacted some of those whose views the advertisements claimed to express , and found that they had not approved or even been aware of the advertisements . |
| 20 | When Cato 's supporters arrived at court they found that they had been pre-empted . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And he went to them , and he found that they had n't a clue what they 'd written , and he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by a Muse . |
| 23 | A review of American schemes carried out in 1990 by the General Accounting Office found that they reduced the total amount of litter by 10–20% by weight and 40–60% by volume . |
| 24 | He hated pomp and humbug , and he resigned from the National Academy of Sciences because he found that they spent most of their time deciding which other scientists should be admitted to the Academy . |
| 25 | He found that they caused radiation effects such as reddening of the skin , conjunctivitis and the fogging of photographic plates , though tests showed that the level of traditional radiation was normal . |
| 26 | But Ramsey and Barth found that they shared a common sense of humour . |
| 27 | they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia |
| 28 | We have used the FCL record as published , although we found that they omitted two minor troughs around 1800 and that a different length for the final solar cycle is obtained when making use of the most recently available data . |
| 29 | A survey by BAND , the Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare , which supports such schemes , found that they enabled 59% of parents to take full-time work , 36% to take training , and 22% to receive promotion . |
| 30 | However , the New York Times of July 12 , reporting on hitherto secret State Department cables provided at the request of the Senate foreign relations committee , found that they included no such clear warning on Glaspie 's part . |