Example sentences of "find that it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links .
2 Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning .
3 ‘ 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 . ’
4 Many artists are now drawn to it , and find that it has other attractions than the records of the burial of kings : they love to paint the children who come to meet the tourist with wave-worn pebbles from the sacred isle , and also the scenery of Mull , and the many lochs that indent that isle of bold headlands and rugged mountains masses , as they are seen from Iona .
5 By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach .
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