Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] find a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 2 | Dexter guessed that she had found a new man . |
| 3 | Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos . |
| 4 | The next day , there 's an advert in the paper — that she 'd found a black and white dog and handed it in to the police at Aigburth . |
| 5 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 6 | In January 1981 , Emsley and others reported in the Journal of the American Chemical at Society ( vol 103 , p 24 ) that they had found a new strong hydrogen bond which formed between fluoride and amides — organic salts of ammonia . |
| 7 | AMOCO , the US oil company , announced last night that it had found a new gasfield 125 miles east of Aberdeen while drilling on a prospect it has named Appleton . |
| 8 | The sting of this question was to some extent drawn for Schleiermacher himself by the fact that he so closely identified immediate self-consciousness with God-consciousness as to believe that he had found a real and solid bridge between the two sides of the matter . |
| 9 | ( I remember having an urgent telephone call from a professional astronomer who believed that he had found a bright nova . |