Example sentences of "and find [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was not pleased when he came back early or unexpectedly from the hospital and found that we were out drinking or talking to girls . |
| 2 | Later that year we met other Soviet researchers and found that they were also studying the stabilising effect of longitudinal fields on pinches . |
| 3 | Churchill called for a return of all party agents who were in the armed forces , and found that they were overwhelmingly Conservative . |
| 4 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 5 | They checked on the possibility that saccadic movements made with the eyes closed , or in the dark , might be slowed , or that the velocity may then be independent of length of saccade , and found that they were not : that is , waking eye movements with eyes closed , or in the dark , are the same as with eyes opened and in the light . |
| 6 | Lecointre ( unpublished memoir , DEA , University of Paris VII ( 1989 ) ) has examined sequences of 361 nucleotides of the 5' extremity of 28S rRNA and found that there are only two base-pair positions , out of 361 , common to lampreys and hagfishes : and there is only one position uniquely shared by lampreys and gnathostomes . |
| 7 | Officials compared the judicial statistics with those of India and found that there were proportionately several times more cases in Sri Lanka . |
| 8 | The enormity of such a task has been made obvious by an American psychologist in the 1930s , who worked his way through an unabridged dictionary , and found that there were about eighteen thousand words that could be used to describe people . |
| 9 | After I had finally collected my British passport from Petty France , I bought an Evening Standard and found that I was n't in the team . |
| 10 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 11 | He tore it open and found that it was n't empty , just that the fine powder inside took up so little space . |
| 12 | Lewine Mair reflects back on the Solheim Cup and finds that there is n't as great a divide in women 's golf as the matches led us to believe . |
| 13 | The fish snaps at these enticingly offered morsels and finds that it is comparatively easy to bite one off . |
| 14 | Jonathan looked upon all that he had made and found that it was very good . |
| 15 | Pip Seymour test reports Pro Arte 's Acrylix brushes , developed especially for artists who paint with acrylics — and find that they are also suitable for other media too … |
| 16 | What should you do if you do n't live in London , and find that it is financially difficult to pay for such courses ? |
| 17 | The members of this family are genetically identical and this was confirmed by making skin grafts between them and finding that they were not rejected . |
| 18 | So erm in spite of all the odds of trying to get a candidates a at the beginning , and finding that there was n't one available , and it would n't Is n't one e well not did n't exist . |
| 19 | Darwin had himself studied some of these plants , verifying that they do actually consume the flies which land in their pitchers or on their leaves and get caught there , and finding that it was apparently to nitrogenous compounds that the plants responded . |
| 20 | She could wake up and find that it was still the night of their parents ' wedding , that only that afternoon she and Stephen had been on the train . |
| 21 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |