Example sentences of "[pers pn] find that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 2 | When the child caught this later and went off her food , I found that tiny Marmite sandwiches handed over whilst I pushed the pram round Wood Green and along the New Yatt Road , seemed to be acceptable to the invalid . |
| 3 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 4 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 5 | I found that moderate slip angles produce no nasty consequences , but was restrained from further experimentation with the admonition that the aircraft describes what sounds like a brisk departure into a fast outside flick roll with the nose going hard down to exceed its negative-g limit . |
| 6 | Yet during interviews with managers involved , I found that other factors were at work . |
| 7 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | Nineteen eighty nine edition which is the latest existing in Your Lordship 's House and I found that that edition did reveal at what had happened since to subsec to Sections Two and Three . |
| 9 | I found that most parents were initially rather shocked at finding out their daughter was pregnant , some cried , some got angry , some were very matter-of-fact , and some were quite pleased . |
| 10 | Instead , I found that military firms are to blame for selling all the arms to these poor countries and most of the sales go on without the governments knowing . |
| 11 | On the first morning came two shocks — I found that Christian names were dropped — from now on I was Maidment . |
| 12 | I find that traditional cocktail foods are always very popular and Devils or Angels on Horseback are a guaranteed success . |
| 13 | I find that other kind of sound very forgiving ; I can get through it technically , but I ca n't make it come alive the way somebody else could . ’ |
| 14 | I find that many DIY tools are often too heavy for women but a radiator roller is ideal for larger areas . |
| 15 | I must admit I , I really do n't agree with that , I mean I find that many women who have had erm children actually their figure has improved after the children , they look a great deal better and I certainly do n't think that many women in Scotland looked vast after they 've had children , I totally disagree with that . |
| 16 | I find that 1 ounce ( 28g ) to the square yard ( square metre ) as a starter , towards the end of March , then a little more — 1½ to 2 ounces ( 43–57g ) — at the end of April , May and June is all that is required . |
| 17 | I find that few fishkeepers use white worm nowadays and I feel that is a pity . |
| 18 | Though walls have to be scrambled over , if you do it with care and replace any stones you dislodge , I find that most farmers do n't object to walkers on their land . |
| 19 | I find that autumn-sown oats or rye ripen early and often allow me to squeeze in a catch crop of oats or rye after the main harvest to be grazed in the late autumn and spring before ploughing for roots . |
| 20 | Some find their feet quickly ; but I find that some assistants need support for the first few weeks , and it 's up to me and Joan and Wendy to give it . ’ |
| 21 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 22 | Speaking to colleagues informally , I find that this situation is not uncommon . |
| 23 | I find that these people who are so called on the cheap that the product is not very good , well if you say say you call it by one of them |
| 24 | Well change it then , ai n't you change that yet , you found that this morning early |
| 25 | During the May to August breeding season , she found that three quarters of perch nests along a 150-metre-long stretch of the stream were parasitised by schools of minnows ; during the same period , she only once saw a minnow laying its eggs away from a perch nest . |
| 26 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 27 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 28 | She found that local legends and place names corresponded accurately with the particular sector of the zodiac where they were found . |
| 29 | She was absolutely terrified of creating her own image in case she found that some expanse of water found its way into the picture . |
| 30 | It is , of course , only brainstorming by another name but , by creating the planetary diagrams which are a fundamental part of the technique , you find that certain patterns of thought start to emerge . |