Example sentences of "we [vb past] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Assembling our find on deck we found that it consisted of a case of 10,000 cigarettes and several cases of spirits . |
| 3 | This makes the special position of the maternal uncle seem even more anomalous , and led Junod to suppose that we could only understand this peculiar relationship if we assumed that it represented an anachronistic throwback or ‘ survival ’ of an earlier matriarchal stage . |
| 4 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
| 5 | We heard that it does not intend to cap any local authority . |
| 6 | Carella had taken the number of the taxi and we discovered that it had dropped the suspect outside the San Gallicano hospital in Trastevere . |
| 7 | Stubbornly , we insisted that it did . |
| 8 | The one occasion on which the Government did not cheat on the payments was earlier this year and we hoped that it had something to do with the Adjournment debate . |