Example sentences of "found that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last a waiter said ‘ Your table is ready , ’ Sara looked at her watch again and found that it was nine-fifteen . |
| 2 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 3 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | One steel factory in Silesia found that it could no longer afford to make the heavily subsidised , high-quality steel it used to produce before the new budgetary regime , so it began to make smaller quantities of low-quality steel , which it found could be exported to Germany at a profit . |
| 6 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |
| 7 | We found that it was cheaper for the four Europeans to travel to America than for the two Americans to come to London or Berlin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 10 | I found that it was easy to read and well organised in eight chapters . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After an arduous approach march they reached Heraklion airfield , but found that it was well guarded . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Kaye enjoyed helping the group but found that it eroded her own identity . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Managers found that it was difficult to compete with the Scottish factories . |
| 17 | Each repeated the other 's remarks and on the couple of occasions that I went there when Sparks were crowded out , I found that it was extremely difficult not to laugh . |
| 18 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 19 | He tested the 1:8 mixture in bottles of various sizes until he found that it would not explode in long narrow tubes that offered a large cooling surface . |
| 20 | The Athens team found that it could . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Euan MacKie excavated the platform and found that it was artificial . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 25 | I found that it was vital to keep them under water when moving them after I had experienced problems with eggs which were accidentally exposed to air which probably dried them out . |
| 26 | Sometimes I found that it was better left off , but equally it could often provide the missing element in certain sounds . |
| 27 | Variety found that it ‘ fails to engage any sympathy or interest : entire reels could be interchanged without it being evident ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We found that it was . |
| 30 | She found that it was difficult to stand ; she put out her hand to the wall to support herself lest she sway . |