Example sentences of "find [adv prt] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three have international sponsors , and Kapuscinski is to find out that the South Africans have invaded in the south of the country , having fallen in love with Savimbi . |
| 2 | It was interesting to find out that the work I was doing actually suited my 10K needs . ’ |
| 3 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 4 | I went to the bookies to put a bet on it , only to find out that the odds had shortened to 14–1 . |
| 5 | So again we find out that erm , the expected price in T minus one , sorry in T , is a function of all previous prices all previous prices , okay and it wo n't surprise you to find out that the weight giving to treating the historical prices right becomes geometrically in exactly the same way as the adapted , as the partial adjustment er co-efficient or the partial adjustment model implied alright . |
| 6 | ‘ And by the way , ’ said Elinor as she handed round tea and biscuits , ‘ I found out that the Chatwin kid was traced to a gypsy camp at the Appleby Horse Fair but before the police could pick him up he 'd disappeared again . ’ |
| 7 | So we thought , ‘ We 'll get the National Trust to take it , ’ and we were flabbergasted when we found out that the Trust could n't afford to take it without an endowment . |
| 8 | Imagine my horror when I found out that the fire had now spread to this building , where my father worked . |
| 9 | Sister and her nurse had calmed her down a little and found out that the child 's father had deserted them , and she had taken up with another man . |
| 10 | It certainly seemed that a chapter of my life was closing , and I felt even more disgruntled when I found out that the other girls had all managed to get postings near their homes for their final few months in the Service . |
| 11 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 12 | She later found out that the bosses of the two companies had got together to work out which one of the couple would be the cheapest to sack . |
| 13 | He ended up staying two years , partly because he found out that the sinecure in Stirling had , to use an aikido expression , dissipated . |
| 14 | And time went by , and suddenly I found out that the man I suspected ( who was married to an Englishwoman ) was planning to leave for England . |
| 15 | Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month . |
| 16 | As I say it 's one of these er competitive market things , but if you go into an electrical shop and you buy a piece of electrical equipment , or if you want er a plug for it , a piece of electrical equipment because you found out that the plug on the electrical equipment at home is defective , it 's got cracked porcelain or something like , then please have a word with the person who is selling you the plug and say look , this plug is gon na be fitted on X appliance . |
| 17 | The Beagle was on the point of leaving when he found out that the natives could tell which island a tortoise came from merely by looking at the shape of its shell . |
| 18 | But now things were bound to change , once he found out that the Englishman had n't been broken . |
| 19 | ‘ But luckily , we found out that the council were giving grants for home improvements to old properties . ’ |
| 20 | I found out that the captain and two of his men , all Americans , were n't on the ship last night , so I 'm sure they killed poor John Openshaw . |
| 21 | I later found out that the school had enquired at the house after the girl 's continued absence and been given some plausible excuse for it by the father . |
| 22 | It was a cold winter , and he soon found out that the theatre was centrally heated and the heating in his dressing-room was on throughout the day and night , so he moved in . |
| 23 | The $24,000,000 production was to be an unmitigated disaster and was to bring Twentieth Century-Fox close to bankruptcy when it found out that the heyday of the film musical was past . |
| 24 | We found out that the sitting room had a timber panelled ceiling which had been papered over and given lots of coats of whitewash . |
| 25 | Er what made me smile when they found out that the salt were going through these er motorway bridges and attacking the steel work in the concrete with all sort of powers that they would of known that would n't ya ? |
| 26 | We found out that the neighbours on the left hand side , who were in fact an elderly couple , and his son was working erm , and he had his own business working at home . |
| 27 | So the rabbi ran after the man and said : ‘ I have just found out that the jewel I gave you is more precious than I thought — do n't sell it for too little . ’ |
| 28 | Surprisingly , Daphne has found out that the best time of day for picking is midday . |
| 29 | He had barred Anne from the house after he had found out that the pair of them had spent an hour in the local pub after shopping one evening . |
| 30 | ‘ We later found out that the university had hired ten people in New York to raise funds to re-build the Beirut campus . |