Example sentences of "we [vb past] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we did find a clear difference between the three- and the four-year-olds : the younger ones typically pointed to the box with the chocolate and the older children to the empty box . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 3 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 4 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 5 | However , we did find some manufacturing organizations , all in engineering , employing temporary workers in highly skilled positions . |
| 6 | Not the best of subjects to inject a little bit of humour but we did find er traces of it nevertheless . |
| 7 | This is where there was n't an accident , thank God , but we did find |
| 8 | In summary , Mr Chairman , the overall mortality rate for disease , for T U R P , over the northern region was point three percent and this compares very well with the large published theories from America but we did find large inter-site variations for both mortality and major morbidity rates . |
| 9 | We did find however that histological type and admission type overall had a significant adverse effect on mortality and overall we feel that written ev evidence of counselling for retrograde ejaculation was poor and was not acceptable . |
| 10 | ‘ Not directly but we did find out that Inez had been getting letters with Spanish stamps . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We did find something , ’ Murtach went on . |
| 12 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 13 | What we did find was nothing " Funny , " Seddon said . |
| 14 | We did find the Hall that was to be home for the next couple of nights , with a note pinned to the door giving directions to the pub where the rest of the Society had gathered . |
| 15 | However , we did find a strong influence on the occurrence of episodes severe enough to lead the mother to take the child to a clinic , and those that subsequently resulted in the child being admitted to hospital , as well as an effect on mortality . |
| 16 | ‘ What if we did find something on the bank ? ’ asked Farag . |
| 17 | ‘ We have no idea who the murderer is or how he or she gained access to Sir Ralph , though we did find Sir Fulke 's buckle . ’ |
| 18 | Erm we did an initial pilot run of nine hundred and seven , er and we had them redirected here which was quite fortunate cos we did find some er previously unthought of errors , erm there were two categories , these are ones where , since the renewal date , they 've had er a decrease erm sorry an increase which meant that erm we 're now quoting on their benefit statement as at last renewal , they 've got today 's er premium which of course is wrong , so we 've had those redirected in future , inside here . |