Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] find out " in BNC.

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1 Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it .
2 I never did find out what the seminar was about !
3 Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation .
4 I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence .
5 Never did find out what they had against him . ’
6 But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free .
7 I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 .
8 Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least .
9 Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families .
10 All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out .
11 Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen
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