Example sentences of "they [vb past] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 2 | However , they did find that personal service workers tended to give different answers to the questions about autonomy at work . |
| 3 | However , they did find some evidence that the price of index futures leads the spot price ( S&P500 index ) by some 20–45 minutes . |
| 4 | However , they did find that the APT correctly predicted the risk-free rate in 6 out of the 7 portfolios . |
| 5 | They did find high incidence of eye diseases among local animals , but in each case they concluded that the most likely cause was infection from a common pathogen . |